Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Ministry - Counseling & Recovery

This book is a practical and biblical guide for all who engage in counseling African-Americans. Its purpose is to set forth the issues, principles, and interventions of counseling, especially in terms of marriage counseling and family therapy. Clarence Walker provides a framework for the book in the biblical story of the apostle Philip and the Ethiopian charioteer as recounted in the book of Acts. In Walker's view this story involves the same issues that confront African-Americans today. Specifically, in Part 1 Walker sees seven challenges that Philip faces as a "Christian counselor": -...

Diese Studie geht der Bedeutung und den Mustern und Strukturen von Religion im Alter nach. Ihr Fokus liegt auf der Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Neben der Identifikation von Sinndimensionen im Alter bildet die Erarbeitung eines dem Forschungsgegenstand adaquaten Designs der empirischen Studie einen Schwerpunkt. Damit ist sie sowohl fur die religiose Altersforschung wie die praktisch-theologische Religionsforschung interessant.

In the last twenty years, the number of texts written on clinical pastoral supervision has accelerated. Thomas St. James O'Connor analyzes these texts, nearly 300 of them, in light of three fundamental questions about the praxis of clinical pastoral supervision: (1)what is distinctive about the praxis? (2)what is an appropriate theological method for the praxis? and, (3)what is an adequate praxis? In doing so, he formulates three approaches: the social science, the hermeneutic and the special interest.

Looking at the theology of Charles Gerkin, a pastoral theologian and family...

A call for pastors to return to their biblical calling as shepherds. Escape from Church, Inc. calls pastor-leaders away from the business executive model of doing church and back to the model of a caring shepherd who tends his sheep. Wagner offers a practical and biblically sound view of how pastors can become all God intended them to be and guides them into new vision, new values, and a new way of pastoring that begins not with doing, but with seeing and being.