Helping the Good Shepherd pastoral counselors in a psychotherapeutic culture, 1925-1975 /

Myers-Shirk, Susan E., 1958-

Helping the Good Shepherd pastoral counselors in a psychotherapeutic culture, 1925-1975 / [print] Susan E. Myers-Shirk. - Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) - Medicine, science, and religion in historical context . - Medicine, science, and religion in historical context. .

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Anton Boisen and the scientific study of religion -- The methodology of clinical pastoral education -- The minds of moralists -- From adjustment to autonomy -- Democracy and the psychologically autonomous individual -- An ethic of relationships -- Gendered moral discourse -- The language of rights and the challenge to the domestic ideal -- Resurrection of the shepherd -- Christian counseling and the conservative moral sensibility



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Pastoral counseling--History--United States--20th century.
Liberalism (Religion)--Protestant churches--History--20th century.


Electronic Books.

BV4012.M996.H457 2009