Augsburg Fortress

Cross-Cultural Counseling

For the busy pastor, this volume outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identity, sense...

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Counseling Adolescent Girls

This book is an introduction to the worlds, lives, and struggles of diverse kinds and communities of girls that ministers and youth leaders are likely to...

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Preaching Liberation

James Harris advocates the salient features of liberation preaching, especially as exemplified in black-church settings. For all preachers who take seriously...

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Minding the Soul: Pastoral Counseling as Remembering

Ministers, priests, rabbis, physicians, and therapists faced with their awesome role will appreciate Ashbrook's clear way of integrating medicine, psychology,...

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Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People: A Path to African American Social Transformation

Cheryl Sanders here sharpens the agenda of black liberation by offering both a fresh reading of historical black religion and a distinctive approach to...

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Healing and Christianity

The classic history of healing in the Christian church from biblical times to the present.

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Healers-Harmed and Harmful

"This book explores the factors that can lead a religious professional either to become depressed or to interact with others in inappropriate ways. ... ...

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Woman Battering

This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence...

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Counseling Men

Counseling Men opens the way for men to discuss and discover their fears and losses in conversation with clergy, pastoral counselors, and lay caregivers.

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Brief Pastoral Counseling: Short-Term Approaches and Strategies

Most pastoral counselors, clergy, and psychotherapists assume that truly effective counseling requires months or even years. Research suggests otherwise....

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Integrative Family Therapy

Pastoral counselors, therapists-in-training and clergy are usually introduced to one method of family assessment and treatment, which works better in some...

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Ministry and the American Legal System: A Guide for Clergy, Lay Workers, and Congregations

Written for persons who are not lawyers, accountants, or quasi-legal specialists, this book offers congregations and religious professionals practical...

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Pastoral Care and the Means of Grace

The emphasis on pastoral freedom is nearly spent?and found wanting. Many caregivers today are seeking to balance such freedom with a sense of God's...

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The Skilled Pastor: Counseling as the Practice of Theology

A splendid volume detailing the specific skills necessary for sound pastoral guidance in various situations. The author integrates theological reflection...

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Pastoral Theology: A Black-Church Perspective

A taut analysis of black liberation theology, connecting scholarship to practical congregational ministry. The chapters of this book focus on liberation and...

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Called to Care: Biblical Images for Social Ministry

Treating the whole of Scripture, Robert Kysar forges the connections between the practice of social ministry and the biblical images undergirding and...

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The Embodied Word: Preaching as Art

Liturgy as the work of God's people gives the preacher a place to stand—an organic connection with an intentional sacramental community, says Rice. The...

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Theology Is for Proclamation

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Reframing: A New Method in Pastoral Care

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The Pastor: Readings From the Patristic Period

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