Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2286103
M. Moschella
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Pub Date : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2275822
Kristen J. Leslie
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Pub Date : 2023-06-24DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2225955
Therese Lautua
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2221109
Jari Pirhonen, S. Saarelainen, Isto Peltomäki, A. Vähäkangas
ABSTRACT This article explores the possibility of time-bound hope for people with severe dementia residing in nursing homes in Finland. We begin with a short introduction to dementia and move on to unraveling the concept of hope and its connection with temporality. Then, by analyzing Lutheran Christian chaplains’ interviews, we present how the temporal dimensions of past, present, and future may be seen and utilized in pastoral care and counseling of people who have lost their own sense of temporality. While doing this, we introduce the concept of past-oral care to capture the basic nature of the chaplains’ work in nursing homes. In the end, we discuss the nature of Christian faith in the light of this new knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2249674
M. Moschella, E. Cho
Welcome to this issue of the Journal of Pastoral Theology. Readers will note some changes in the editorial team. We begin by thanking Danjuma Gibson for his four years of extraordinary service as Co-Editor and welcoming Eunil David Cho aboard for his term. We also thank those editorial board members who rotated off this term and welcome those who have been elected to serve. We would especially like to express our warm appreciation to Sonya Waters for her generous service on the Board of Editors. This regular issue of the Journal of Pastoral Theology brings together three diverse religious and theological perspectives on chaplaincy with an article in the vein of public theology. As the JPT moves to expand its base of authors and readers to include more international and religious perspectives, we celebrate this wide-ranging participation. Jari Pirhonen, Suvi-Maria Saarelainen, Isto Peltomäki and Auli Vähäkangas contribute the lead article, ‘Past-oral Care – Christian Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling for People With Severe Dementia in Finland.’ This article is based on a qualitative study of the pastoral care methods used by ten Evangelical Lutheran chaplains who work with persons with dementia in Finland. The carefully described study plumbs the lived experience of chaplaincy with a highly stigmatized population. What do these chaplains actually do when they visit with persons with dementia, and what are they trying to accomplish? Pirhonen et al. identify themes of presence, relationality, temporality, embodiment, and hope. They note the importance of nonverbal communication, especially when people with severe dementia are unable to narrate their experience. Additional practices include reminiscing to build temporal bridges between past, present, and future, active listening, even when what is said does not make sense, and the importance of tactile, embodied rituals that engage the senses. Poignantly, one chaplain describes how she engages the senses through offering the sacrament of communion: ‘If someone cannot drink, you moisten her lips with the wine to offer some taste.’ The authors analyze their findings through Christian theological lenses, engaging the work of John Swinton, Elaine Graham, and the Society of Pastoral Theology’s own Andrew Lester. Throughout, the authors emphasize their conviction that dementia does not define the person. This article is particularly useful for teaching students of chaplaincy, especially in the way that it models the study of lived chaplaincy practices and engages in theological reflection. Turning our gaze toward Islamic chaplaincy, the noted Islamic scholar and chaplain Celene Ibrahim contributes ‘Spiritual Care by and for Muslim Women in the United States.’ Taking a wide-angle view of spiritual care for Muslim women and girls in the US, Ibrahim notes that there is a distinct need for Muslim women and girls to confide in women rather than men, especially because of the traditional boundaries for decoru
欢迎收看本期《牧师神学杂志》。读者会注意到编辑团队的一些变化。首先，我们感谢Danjuma Gibson作为联合编辑四年来的非凡服务，并欢迎Eunil David Cho加入他的任期。我们也感谢那些在这一任期内轮换的编委会成员，并欢迎那些当选的人。我们特别感谢索尼娅·沃特斯在编辑委员会的慷慨服务。这期《牧师神学杂志》以公共神学为主题，将三种不同的宗教和神学视角结合在一起。随着JPT扩大其作者和读者基础，将更多的国际和宗教观点纳入其中，我们庆祝这种广泛的参与。Jari Pirhonen、Suvi Maria Saarelainen、Isto Peltomäki和Auli Vähäkangas撰写了题为“过去的口腔护理——芬兰严重痴呆症患者牧师护理和咨询中的基督教希望”的主要文章这篇文章是基于对芬兰十名福音路德教会牧师为痴呆症患者工作所使用的田园护理方法的定性研究。这项精心描述的研究揭示了牧师与高度污名化人群的生活经历。当这些牧师探访痴呆症患者时，他们实际上做了什么？他们试图实现什么？Pirhonen等人确定了存在、关系、时间性、体现和希望的主题。他们注意到非语言交流的重要性，尤其是当患有严重痴呆症的人无法讲述自己的经历时。其他实践包括回忆，在过去、现在和未来之间建立时间桥梁，即使所说的没有意义，也要积极倾听，以及触觉的、体现感官的仪式的重要性。一位牧师痛苦地描述了她是如何通过提供圣餐来吸引感官的：“如果有人不能喝酒，你可以用葡萄酒湿润她的嘴唇来提供一些味道。”作者从基督教神学的角度分析了他们的发现，参与了约翰·斯温顿、伊莱恩·格雷厄姆和牧师神学协会自己的安德鲁·莱斯特的工作。自始至终，作者强调他们坚信痴呆症并不能定义一个人。这篇文章对教授牧师学生特别有用，尤其是在它为生活牧师实践的研究建模和进行神学反思方面。将我们的目光转向伊斯兰牧师，著名的伊斯兰学者兼牧师Celene Ibrahim贡献了“美国穆斯林妇女的精神关怀”易卜拉欣从广泛的角度看待对美国穆斯林妇女和女孩的精神关怀，他指出，穆斯林妇女和男孩显然需要向女性而不是男性倾诉，尤其是因为伊斯兰教中跨性别的传统礼仪界限。易卜拉欣调查了全国一些主要的女性穆斯林牧师、学者和组织主管，她指出，尽管穆斯林女性可能被禁止担任某些关键角色，如传教或领导周五祈祷，但她们正在寻找将牧师关怀融入相关角色的方法，如教学、牧师、，以及允许他们从事精神活动的自愿或创业项目
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2237697
Cody J. Sanders
This very statement is enough to silence conversation in some circles. To deal with this dilemma, Cooper-White offers concrete and usable tips for assessing a situation: when to stop the conversation, when to proceed with caution, when to go deeper. She reviews practices that facilitate empathetic listening, the fruit of her many years of teaching the skills of pastoral psychotherapy, and offers helpful suggestions for conversations with those whose views may be diametrically opposed to our own. Reviewing the psychological dynamics of ‘splitting’ and noting the temptation to turn conflictual issues into a cosmic battle between good and evil are helpful reminders as we attempt to talk across the divide. The Psychology of Christian Nationalism is useful not only to clinicians, but to pastoral theologians in the classroom and spiritual care specialists as well. It stands in the tradition of other books published in recent decades in the field of pastoral theology that embrace a vision of care and community that extends beyond individual concerns. It recognizes the role that structures play in harming individuals, couples, and families. Cooper-White provides not only an analysis of unjust structures, but as noted, identifies dialogue as a concrete solution to systemic problems. Whether addressing gender or sexuality, racism or white privilege, she brings to the discussion a deep understanding of gospel values infused with practical suggestions. Her understanding of congregational life, shaped by her lifelong membership in The Episcopal Church as well as her ordination in that denomination, gives her a particular window into the ethical and social dimensions of pastoral care. It sometimes happens that a book meets the moment with a kind of clarity, depth of research, and ring of truth that sets it apart. Rev. Dr. Pamela Cooper-White’s The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide is one of those books. It is an important text for the classroom and for all who are concerned with how we can speak with one another when it sometimes feels that we live in different worlds and speak different languages.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2237698
M. Ragan
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2180580
R. Lamothe
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Pub Date : 2023-02-03DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2156697
Millicent C. Feske
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2210341
Danjuma Gibson
ABSTRACT This article documents one of the plenary speeches given at the annual conference of the Society of Pastoral Theology in June 2022 in Montgomery, Alabama. The theme of the conference, Looking Back and Moving Forward, centered on an immersion experience at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. In this plenary address, the speaker invites the community of scholars and practitioners to imagine soul care through the work and person of twentieth-century literary artist James Baldwin. Four themes from the work of Baldwin are discussed as a way to enhance the work of pastoral scholars and spiritual caregivers: (1) locating soul-care on the correct arc of history, (2) identifying who you are writing for, (3) cultivating generativity as a practice of self-care and for the continuity of the struggle for freedom and, (4) practicing love as the next step beyond empathy.
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