Author: Nancy J. Gorsuch
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: pastoral, counseling, care, creative, visitation
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0800631900
ISBN-13: 9780800631901
Clergy, students of pastoral care, and lay visitation volunteers will find Nancy Gorsuch an effective guide in developing an intentional, proactive program of pastoral visitation in the local church. To increase the pastoral visitor’s positive experiences of effectiveness, the author presents basic "how to" information in a straightforward manner characterized by vivid illustrations and case studies. The book provides a theological bases for pastoral visitation and goes on to explore the types and purposes of visitation, preparation and resources, training and basic helping skills, asses
Author: D.J. Louw
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Keywords: pastoral, louvain, counseling, theological, amp, monographs, care, mature, spiritual, direction, anthropology, theology, faith
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 9042906863
ISBN-13: 9789042906860
A Mature Faith is an attempt to develop an anthropology for pastoral care and counseling which deals with both Christian perspective and important data from the human sciences, such as psychology. This book presents an integrative approach which views spirituality and our human quest for meaning as central to a psycho-pastoral approach. designed which deals with both the dimension of creation (image of God) and of salvation (the new being in Christ). understanding of human beings in terms of their human identity before God (Coram Deo) as well as the empowerment of persons by the gift and fruit
Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years (Haworth Religion, Ministry & Pastoral Care Series)
Authors:Thomas B. Robb, William M. Clements,
Publisher: The Haworth Press
Keywords: pastoral, ministry, amp, series, religion, care, haworth, nurture, later, years, growing
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1991-09-24
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 1560240733
ISBN-13: 9781560240730
Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical perspectives, as well as research from over 20 years as a pastor, on the life process and the feelings, worries, and expectations accompanying growing up and growing old. He then molds these concerns into a chal
Author: Elaine Ramshaw
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: pastoral, care, theology, amp, ritual
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1987-12-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 080061738X
ISBN-13: 9780800617387
Author: James E. Gile
Publisher: Casa Bautista de Publicacione
Keywords: pastor, pastoral, spanish, ethics, practical, etica, approach
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1988-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0311420761
ISBN-13: 9780311420766
Author: Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: pastoral, care, series, counseling, creative, primer
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0800637607
ISBN-13: 9780800637606
Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers. Stevenson-Moessner expands on her key notion of pastoral care as seen through the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self. Her brief book is meant to engender "confidence and caring" in the initiate, and to assuage the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Throu
Author: David K. Switzer
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Keywords: pastoral, care, counseling, emergencies, creative
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2000-02
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0800632281
ISBN-13: 9780800632281
David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative, practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies typically faced by clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers such as Stephen Ministers and Befrienders. The chapters deal with such issues such as situational crises, hospital emergencies, ministry to the dying, bereavement, suicide, divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, and psychiatric emergencies. The question of when and how to refer is discussed in the final chapter. The book is highly practical in approach, but still ext
