Personhood and Presence: Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care
Overview
The purpose of this book is to enhance the quality of spiritual and pastoral care offered by ministers by fostering a reflexive caring relationship—the greatest asset for pastoral care. Offering oneself to other people in order to provide companionship along the road of life is an act which is both challenging and yet potentially life-enhancing.
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- Seeks to enhance the quality of spiritual and pastoral care offered by ministers
- Discusses a reflexive caring relationship for pastoral care
- Examines the challenges and potential life-enhancements that come with companionship
- The Beloved Self
- Waiting Self
- Sexual Self
- Relational Self
- Vulnerable Self
- Limited Self
- Mortal Self
- Powerful Self
- Meaningful Self
Top Highlights
“We have to seek to be attentive to that moment and to trust our creative abilities as we offer a verbal or an enacted interpretation of the other’s story and, where appropriate, utilize the Christian story as an interpretative tool. Seeking to timeously and sensitively facilitate interpretation or reframing of another’s experience is to utilize practical wisdom, but again it is also to risk getting it wrong.” (Page 42)
“that, ultimately, the current situation is out of our control and has to be lived through rather than fixed or overcome.” (Page 32)
“ an attuned, non-judgemental presence in our waiting with others, that conveys our concern and our compassion.” (Page 25)
“Our personhood is the relational aspect of our identity” (Page 3)
“ is this theological foundation which sustains and supports us in times of self-doubt and despair.” (Page 16)
It is a very long time since I have read a work of pastoral theology as rich, perceptive, and elegantly expressed as Personhood and Presence. Ewan Kelly is absolutely right on all three counts. The self is the best gift the caregiver has to offer. Acute self-awareness is needed to fully offer the gift. Such reflexivity is a moral imperative. This book has the power to inform and transform the reader's pastoral practice at the deepest level . . .
—Neil Pembroke, associate professor in practical theology at the University of Queensland, Australia
- Title: Personhood and Presence: Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care
- Author: Ewan Kelly
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Pastoral care; Pastoral counseling; Self
- ISBNs: 9780567283283, 0567283283
- Resource ID: LLS:PRSNHDPRSNC
- Resource Type: Monograph
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