When All Else Fails: Rethinking Our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck - Rilegato

Menking, Wayne L.

 
9781498265058: When All Else Fails: Rethinking Our Pastoral Vocation in Times of Stuck
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ISBN 10: 1498265057 ISBN 13: 9781498265058
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock, 2013

Sinossi

The condition of stuck is a condition well known by pastoral caregivers and leaders. In When All Else Fails, Wayne Menking argues that the way out of stuckness is not through the acquisition of faddish techniques, but through a deep rethinking of our pastoral vocation and what our pastoral work is to be about. Pastoral care and leadership are not indistinguishable, just as priestly work can never be separated from prophetic work. They are always one and the same. Pastoral care and leadership, then, are not about helping people relieve their anxiety through the offering of palliative comfort, but rather helping people to engage the powers that have hold of their life so as to leave what is old for what is new. In this engagement, the caregiver will always encounter powers against which niceness and unconditional love will not work. Using biblical images and narratives that depict God as a deeply empathic and compassionate God, yet one who is never adaptively sympathetic, Menking asserts that pastoral caregivers and leaders must shed their niceness and adaptivity so as to employ their God-given power if they are to help people effectively leave what is old for what is new.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Wayne L. Menking currently directs the Texas Health Resources Department of Clinical Pastoral Education in the Fort Worth-Dallas area. His clinical and teaching positions have included Associate Director of Pastoral Care at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Director of the Ministry Development Center of the Southwest, and Director of the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest. He is a Certified CPE Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.

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Editore
Wipf and Stock
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1498265057
ISBN 13 
9781498265058
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
150
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  1620324997 ISBN 13:  9781620324998
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock, 2013
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