A Primer on Pastoral Care

by Jeanne Stevenson Moessner

Overview

Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers.

Stevenson-Moessner sees pastoral care as the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self. Her brief book engenders confidence and caring in the initiate, and assuages the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Through biblical parables - especially the Good Samaritan and the Good Shepherd - and stories from her own experience, Stevenson-Moessner imparts genuine wisdom and meaningful support to those who courageously dare to offer care-giving ministry in whatever situation or through whatever method or paradigm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800637606
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	07/19/2005
Series:	Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is professor of pastoral care and pastoral theology at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University; an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a psychotherapist in ACPE; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; a McCord Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry; and a former president of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She coedited a volume that transformed the field of pastoral theology, Women in Travail and Transition: A New Pastoral Care (Fortress Press, 1990). Three additional pioneering volumes followed, all with Fortress Press.

Table of Contents

	Editor's Foreword	9
	Acknowledgments	11
	Introduction	13
Chapter 1	The One-Room Schoolhouse	17
Chapter 2	The Grammar of Care: Pointers and Precepts	25
Chapter 3	The Prism of Pastoral Care: Scripture Refracted	37
Chapter 4	The Community as Classroom: Avoiding Compassion Fatigue	45
Chapter 5	The Open Classroom: Places of Care	61
Chapter 6	The Open Classroom: More Places of Care	75
Chapter 7	An Alphabet of Grace	85
	Notes	93

Editorial Reviews

"Beginning caregivers will find here the encouragement they need along with good, practical guidance--often couched in wonderful illustrative short stories--about how to effectively bear Christ into the pain and sorrow of the people to whom they are privileged to minister." --Henry F. French, retired ELCA pastor

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