Augsburg Fortress

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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Ethics in Ministry: A Guide for the Professional

An ethical guide for clergy and laypersons who deal with "the vexing questions that arise in the daily life of a minister at work." The authors discuss...

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Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible

Long argues that the literary form and dynamics of biblical texts can and should make a difference in the kinds of sermons created from those texts, not only...

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life: Revised and Expanded Edition

Among the topics treated are: Christian ethics as community ethics Charting the moral life Elements of character formation Character and social structure...

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Faith Development and Pastoral Care

James Fowler's work as the originator of faith development research -- his use of the theories of Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson for theology -- has been...

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Homiletic: Moves and Structures

Buttrick presents a complete homiletic that focuses on how sermons form in consciousness and how the language of preaching functions in the communal...

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Ritual and Pastoral Care

Pastoral counseling can be imbued with a sense of community and of the transcendent; there is no surer way for this to happen than through a vital and...

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