Architectures of Grace in Pastoral Care

Architectures of Grace in Pastoral Care

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An updating of virtue ethics for modern pastors and the souls they care for, this book proposes innovations for the craft of ministry in the theology of grace--how virtues radiate to tame strife and other destructive behaviors. It presents a comprehensive alternative to the top-down proclamations of ""biblical counseling"" approaches that try to impart, from an eclectic biblicist lens, cognitive authorities for consequential change. Instead, Christ's bottom-up practice of virtues heals and fulfills by focusing on neighbor first and subordinating the ego's strategic considerations--more graciously spreading God's will in ministry through participatory and experiential knowledge. Virtuous pastoral ministries integrate the common grace of humanist learning to address the range of the care seeker's contemporary context--her upbringing, struggles, and affiliations. This book presents more the ""how"" than the ""what"" of pastoral theology: more how the dance of mutuality and chivalry enters the spiritual flow of healing metaphysical grace than the ""what"" of right ""belief."" Even so, pastoral care from the virtue ethical approach inevitably reconsiders ""vending machine"" theologies, destructive doctrinal boundaries, and context-lite biblicisms. This presentation introduces how virtue ethics apply to ministry, the household, individual trauma and addictions, and the contemporary political and cultural arena.

Book information

ISBN: 9781666766981
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 332
Weight: 612g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 19mm