Addresses the critique that pastoral care is indistinguishable from secular psychotherapy by placing a person's relationship to God at the center of pastoral care.
E. Brooks Holifield, From Salvation to Self-Realization: Protestant Pastoral Counseling in America (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983) is a comprehensive and critical history of the pastoral counseling movement up until about 1970.
This book provides the tools to reflect theologically on practices of pastoral care and counseling.
Just as the "Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling" defined the field of Pastoral Care, this volume brings the field current.
By linking personal stories and the pastor's stories to the heart language of the Bible stories, counselors can use God's unfolding drama to bring healing and reconciliation to human lives.
15. Taylor , " Kierkegaard as a Theologian on Hope , " 226–27 . 16. Kurt K. Reinhardt , The Existentialist Revolt : The Main Themes and Phases of Existentialism ( Milwaukee : Bruce Publishing Co. , 1952 ) , 238 . 17.
Reviews of the first edition:. ' ... a wonderful balance of the major themes, as well as the developing trends, within pastoral theology.
"This volume offers authoritative, easy-to-find information that will assist anyone engaged in the study or practice of pastoral care and counseling.
Written to help pastors and church leaders understand the basics of biblical counseling, this book provides an overview of the counseling process from the initial meeting to the final session.
The book will also be a great help to the students of Bible Schools, Pastors as well as lay trainees for ministry. This book is used by the Senate of Serampore affiliated Colleges, many use it as a text book.
Employing these insights, in this groundbreaking book Pamela Cooper-White offers a new relational paradigm for pastoral assessment and theological reflection.