DR. DAVID TOREVELL Associate Professor,Theology and Education, Liverpool Hope University, UK
‘This volume is a wide-ranging and engaging reader on pastoral care addressed to scholars and ministers alike.The editors have produced a superb piece of work that is sensitive to context while exploring new emerging territories, as well as shedding a fresh light on age-old quandaries.’ DR ADRIAN-MARIO GELLEL Department of Pastoral Theology, University of Malta
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THE BLOOMSBURY GUIDE TO
‘This is an important and scholarly work drawing from the best practice and up-to-date thinking in Christian pastoral care across both Europe and North America. It deals with pressing issues in an informed and accessible manner and I strongly recommend it.’
In this collection of essays from leading practitioner-scholars, Bernadette Flanagan and Sharon Thornton set out core principles underpinning professional identity and the practice of pastoral care in rapidly changing social settings. Such pastoral challenges as developing compassionate and effective companioning to those who have suffered trauma, torture, catastrophic events, social disintegration, the moral wounds of war and cultural dislocation are treated with insight and deep care. Also explored are the new frontiers of pastoral care in more familiar circumstances such as family, health settings where patients are facing life-challenging medical events, and within multi-cultural communities.
PASTORAL CARE
SHARON THORNTON PhD is Professor of Pastoral Theology Emerita of Andover Newton Theological School. Currently she is teaching courses for Andover Newton and the Graduate Theological Union. Parish ministry and teaching in hospitals, prisons and urban settings inform her passion for pastoral theology. She served as pastor of Christ Church of Chicago, UCC. Her book Broken Yet Beloved (Chalice Press, 2002) addresses contemporary experiences of historical suffering.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning from the new and challenging practical contexts which are important in pastoral care research today.
EDITED BY BERNADET TE FLANAGAN & SHARON THORNTON
BERNADETTE FLANAGAN PhD is Director of Research at All Hallows College (Dublin City University). Her publications include The Spirit of the City (Veritas, 1999); in collaboration with Una Agnew/ Greg Heylin, With Wisdom Seeking God: The Academic Study of Spirituality (Peeters, 2008) and in collaboration with Michael O’Sullivan SJ, Spiritual Capital (Ashgate, 2012). She has served on the Governing Board of the international Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and is a non-resident faculty scholar of the Duke University Center for Spirituality, Religion and Health. She is currently researching ‘women and new monasticisms’.
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B E R NA D E T T E F L A NAG A N & S H A RO N T H O R N TO N
With contributions from Kevin Egan, Michael O’Sullivan SJ, Rita Nakashima Brock and Julia Prinz VDMF, The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care is an essential reference for the theory and practice of pastoral care.