Grief, Loss, and Death : The Shadow Side of Ministry

ISBN-13: 9780789024152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 81 str.

Halbert Weidner

Opis

No amount of research, study, or planning can prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their personal lives by the demands of their ministries. But Grief, Loss, and Death: The Shadow Side of Ministry can help anyone involved in pastoral counseling close the gap between their professional and personal needs, encouraging them to use the stress, loss, and grief that accompanies pastoral care giving as opportunities to humanize their ministries and reaffirm their faith. This unique book offers comfort and solace to those in the chaplaincy who are torn between professional obligations and the limits and boundaries of the shadow side of their ministry--the human side.

Spis treści

• Preface and Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Stages of Growth or the Stations of the Cross?
  
• Chapter 2. A Feast Day Funeral
  
• Chapter 3. Rod and Staff: Co-Workers
  
• Chapter 4. The Death of Dialogue
  
• Chapter 5. Nothing Personal: Lawyers and Ministry As Business
  
• Chapter 6. Evading Focus, Losing God, or, What Was the Question?
  
• Chapter 7. Who Is in Charge Here?
  
• Chapter 8. The Family of the Minister: Sex, Love, and Grief
  
• Appendix. Resources for the Shadow Side of Ministry
  
• References
  
• Index
  

O autorze

Andrew J Weaver