Pastoral care in context : an introduction to pastoral care / [print]
John Patton.
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster/John Knox Press, (c)1993.
- 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Communal: care as remembering -- Contextual: care as re-membering -- Characteristics of the carers -- Care through consultation on caring -- Limit and loss -- the risks of care -- Patience and patienthood -- the need for care -- Abuse of self and others -- the failure to care -- Special relationships -- the balances of care -- Pastoral counseling: a ministry of availability and introduction -- Theological reflection on pastoral caring.
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Church work. Pastoral theology. Lay ministry. Pastoral counseling.