Images of Pastoral Care

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I use this book to complete the requirement of a class for my carrier as a chaplain. I like the good condition of the book.

Wonderful resource for pastors and chaplains. This book contains summaries of books written by pastoral caregivers.

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Dykstra gives a nicely written overview of the development of pastoral care: the relation and tensions between theological language and psychological language. His survey starts with Boisen and his concept of 'the living human document' and then he leads us through the development of the different schools of pastoral care as they have become manifest in their leading metaphors or images of pastoral care. I miss in his book somewhat the European Barthian kerygmatic view, presumably because it is quite contrary to the the development of American pastoral care, which is more closely connected it seems to a clinical setting and the pragmatic and psychologi(zising) way of looking, than in Europe, although the kerugmatic approach in Europe nowadays hardly exists anymore,at least in circles where pastoral care is professionalized. It would be interesting though to read once more E. Thurneysen and his followers to see if there might be something to discover, that can help us with the regaining of the theological 'proprium' in our pastoral care instead of getting more and more sucked into the psychological dimension. I missed in the book also the very important contribution of Ivan Boszormenyi Nagy, the contextual approach: the primate of the ethical dimension in human relations. The models of pastoral care that pointed to the social dimensions and political as a correction of onesided psychological ways of looking and interpreting were brought in by Dykstra but would have deserved more end deeper exploration. All in all it is a good and informative book.

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This resource makes you think in pictures which are much more powerful than thoughts and words. An excellent resource for intro counseling classes.

Good overview of different styles.

Absolutely love this book. V helpful.

The book was purchased as a teaching tool. I became familiar with the book during my own Pastoral Care training. The book arrived in a timely manner, packaged adequately and was in pristine condition when received. 100% satisfaction.

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good read