Living Stories

Pastoral Counseling in Congregational Context

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Donald Capps

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Paperback / softback

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Pastoral counseling, Donald Capps believes, should not be just another service-like chartered tours-that churches provide for their members. Rather, he views counseling as essential to the religious task and identity of any religious congregation or parish. In his new, more radical model of pastoral counseling, Capps combines the innovative techniques of brief counseling or therapy with recent insights about the uses of narrative in pastoral care. Itself enlivened by many stories, Capps' book explains how people "story" their lives-inspirationally, paradoxically, or miraculously-and the patterns they exhibit. He shows pastors how they can help people discover their own "story," discern its shape and direction, and move constructively to find new understandings or possibilities in their situation. Through pastoral counseling, Capps affirms, congregations can become constructive environments in which people find new grounds for hope.

Author Biography:

Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Release date Australia

June 11th, 1998

Author

Donald Capps

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

240

Dimensions

152x235x15

ISBN-13

9780800630737

Product ID

7580520

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