Classical Pastoral Care: Pastoral Counsel

by Thomas C. Oden

Publisher:

Baker

, 1987

Overview

Pastoral Counsel deals directly with the nature of the counseling relationship, the metaphors of soul care (from medicine, guidance, and education), the elements of a therapeutic relationship, the timing of good counsel, pastoral discernment, language and silence in counsel, truth-telling and deception, admonition and discipline, care of the conscience, anticipations of modern psychotherapy by classical writers, and dynamics of the self-alienating will.

Product Details

• Title: Classical Pastoral Care: Pastoral Counsel
• Author: Thomas C. Oden
• Publisher: Baker
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 297

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About Thomas C. Oden

Dr. Oden is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics at Drew University. He is best known as an advocate of paleo-orthodoxy. He is a prolific writer, having authored over 40 books.