Sentences with phrase «pastoral care practices»

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The graduates may in the short run have the relevant skills to help congregations organize themselves to engage in the several practices that comprise their common life (religious education, worship, pastoral care, social action, gathering and maintaining resources, etc.), to nurture and sustain them in those practices, and to grow as organizations.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

It is my judgment that this specialized model of pastoral care is becoming more and more influential on the practices of the local pastor.

But if these learning processes have been undergone, through experience as well as thinking, then it is unthinkable that preaching and pastoral care, rightly understood and humbly practiced, can be in fundamental contradiction within the functions of the Christian minister.

It includes the pastoral practices of preaching and teaching and leading the liturgy, but also the detailed, painstaking, mundane care of nurturing the people and paying attention to God working in them.

I witnessed Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists and Congregationalists practicing silence at board meetings, prayer meetings, Bible studies, pastoral care sessions, labyrinth walks, yoga classes and discernment groups.

Although I had had clinical training and professional experience in chaplaincy and pastoral psychotherapy, I had never had an actual course in pastoral care or pastoral theology, nor had many of my courses emphasized pastoral congregational practices.

We will show how Gregory weaves scriptural resources intrinsically into his pastoral care in such a way that biblical texts and pastoral practice are inseparable, and the one can not be conceived without the other.

Contemporary pastoral care theory and practice, by contrast, seem to bear the message of hope, liberation and the coming Kingdom of God only as alternatives to hopeless suffering rather than as a horizon of meaning within hopeless suffering.

The kind of empathic support which Hunter offers, though commendable in the light of present pastoral care theory and practice, nonetheless is oriented to the horizon of life, and to the overcoming of suffering.

But the question with which both Hunter and Moltmann became preoccupied aptly represents the fundamental theological question currently being raised about the theory and practice of pastoral care.

Moltmann's caricature of certain traditional models of pastoral care makes plain the advance demonstrated in Hunter's practice: the pastor visits from house to house, and from hospital room to hospital room, with Bible and prayer book in hand, reading a few verses from each to his parishioners, before moving on.

But his judgment is sound in that something like this congeries of pastoral care principles, widely if not universally adhered to, has contributed in a fundamental way to the shape of present pastoral counseling practice and theory.

The practice of requiring students to spend some time in apprenticeship or clinical training in pastoral care of the sick is being extended.67 A new literature has sprung up in this field, and it is likely that an examination of the content of the reading of a group of representative ministers would disclose a high frequency of materials on pastoral care and related areas.

There are, of course, an indefinitely large number of other practices that are part of the common life of Christian congregations: pastoral care of the ill, the troubled, and the grieving; nurture and education of children and adults; management of property; raising of funds; maintenance of institutions; and so forth.

Royalties realized from the project will be divided between the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, two professional groups which have helped raise the level of training and practice in the pastoral care field.

These authors, from a variety of professional settings, are among those who are providing dynamic leadership in the teaching and practice of pastoral care as it relates to community mental health.

The practice of the public worship of God, in the broad sense adopted here, also embraces pastoral care of persons in various sorts of trouble through acts of reconciliation, healing, guiding, and sustaining.

Regular reviews of policies and practices help to systematically assess pastoral care resources, strengths, needs, threats and opportunities.

This decision making may consider policies and practices related to the five key pastoral care school - level tasks: proactive, preventative pastoral care; developmental pastoral teaching and learning; the supportive / collaborative environment; reactive casework; and the management and administration of pastoral care (Department of Education, 2001).

Regular reviews of a school's pastoral care policies and practices help the school community to systematically assess their school's pastoral care resources, strengths, needs, threats and opportunities.

Provide high quality programs of Certification and Fellowship for professionals practicing the specialty of pastoral care / thanatology to the dying.

Regular reflection in group and individual supervision on actual ministry experiences enables CPE students in learning the art and practice of pastoral care.