Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2028055
T. Steinwert
ABSTRACT Campus chaplains can provide essential support for students as they learn to navigate life in and through this pandemic. However, if chaplains are to successfully confront the oncoming mental health catastrophe on college campuses, theological educators must prepare and equip them to meet this moment. There are three primary tasks theological education must address in their formation of chaplains for higher education: (1) Chaplaincy concentrations and tracks must address the contextual needs for those entering higher education and must include a clear vision of their role as existential guides and public theologians. (2) Theological educators must critically examine the ways in which Christian hegemony and white supremacy continue to inform and shape the logic of theological education and work to dismantle barriers to access for diverse communities. (3) Theological schools must forge creative, interdisciplinary collaborations that leverage the research and best practices honed by scholars outside of theological education.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2069645
M. Moschella, Danjuma Gibson
The first issue in volume 32 of the Journal of Pastoral Theology includes a special issue on chaplaincy and highlights from the 2021 Society of Pastoral Theology (SPT) Annual Study Conference with the theme ‘Viral Care and Viral Justice in an Apocalyptic World.’ In the chaplaincy special issue, we are pleased to feature ‘The Changing Landscape of Spiritual Care: Implications for the Education of Chaplains,’ guest-edited by Shelly Rambo of Boston University and Cheryl Giles of Harvard Divinity School. These scholars charge pastoral theologians to focus more intently on educating students for the work of a diverse array of chaplaincy roles, including not only military, hospital, prison, and educational chaplaincy, but also chaplaincy that attends to the needs of political protestors, eco-chaplains, and chaplains responding to those devastated by pandemics and natural disasters. Rambo and Giles argue that chaplaincy is becoming the primary professional form of ministries of spiritual and pastoral care in our time. They assert that seminaries and divinity schools must adjust to this new reality, instead of merely tweaking traditional Masters of Divinity programs that privilege the role of Christian church pastors over other religious leaders and over other forms of ministry. To this end, Rambo and Giles offer us a series of eleven short articles written by chaplaincy practitioners and educators. These authors discuss various issues arising from their work experience. Prominent among these is the need for more chaplains representing diverse religious communities and racial identities. Pointing out the many obstacles that current modes of education and training present for chaplains in minority groups and minority religious groups, these essays challenge pastoral theologians to reflect on pedagogies and practices in light of the changing conditions and situations that practitioners are encountering in this altered professional landscape. The issues raised here are in some ways not new to us in the field. Kathleen Greider, Tom Beaudoin, and others have challenged the ubiquity of ‘Christianicity’ in models of pastoral and spiritual care. Carrie Doehring has long advocated for the teaching of inter-religious competencies to students in seminaries and divinity schools. Phillis Sheppard, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, and many other scholars in pastoral theology have been raising important critiques of racism and white supremacy in teaching, research, and pastoral practice for justice and liberation. Still, these current articles cry out for change, reminding us that this field that resides at the intersection of theory and practice is strengthened when scholars and teachers listen to the voices of practitioners fully engaged in living ministries of care. Rambo and Giles point to three needed foci in teaching that are familiar to most who teach pastoral and spiritual care classes: skills in meaning-making, interpersonal competencies, and navigating organizations.
《教牧神学杂志》第32卷的第一期包括一个关于牧师的特刊，以及2021年教牧神学学会(SPT)年度研究会议的亮点，主题是“启示录世界中的病毒关怀和病毒正义”。在《牧师特刊》中，我们很高兴为大家介绍《精神关怀的变化:对牧师教育的启示》，客座编辑是波士顿大学的谢利·兰博和哈佛神学院的谢丽尔·贾尔斯。这些学者要求教牧神学家更专注于教育学生从事各种牧师角色的工作，不仅包括军队、医院、监狱和教育牧师，还包括照顾政治抗议者、生态牧师和应对受流行病和自然灾害破坏的牧师。兰博和贾尔斯认为，在我们这个时代，牧师正在成为精神和教牧关怀部门的主要专业形式。他们断言，神学院和神学院必须适应这种新的现实，而不是仅仅调整传统的神学硕士课程，使基督教教会牧师的角色凌驾于其他宗教领袖和其他形式的事工之上。为此，兰博和贾尔斯为我们提供了一系列由牧师从业者和教育工作者撰写的十一篇短文。这些作者讨论了从他们的工作经验中产生的各种问题。其中最突出的是需要更多代表不同宗教团体和种族身份的牧师。这些文章指出了当前的教育和培训模式给少数群体和少数宗教团体的牧师带来的许多障碍，并要求牧养神学家根据从业者在这种变化的专业环境中遇到的不断变化的条件和情况来反思教学方法和实践。这里提出的问题在某些方面对我们这个领域来说并不新鲜。Kathleen Greider, Tom Beaudoin和其他人已经挑战了“基督教性”在牧养和精神关怀模式中的普遍存在。Carrie Doehring长期以来一直主张向神学院和神学院的学生教授跨宗教能力。Phillis Sheppard, Chanequa Walker-Barnes和许多其他教牧神学学者在教学、研究和教牧实践中提出了对种族主义和白人至上主义的重要批评，以争取正义和解放。尽管如此，这些当前的文章呼吁改变，提醒我们，当学者和教师倾听充分参与生活护理部门的从业者的声音时，这个位于理论和实践交叉点的领域就会得到加强。兰博和贾尔斯指出，大多数教牧灵关怀课程的人都熟悉教学中需要关注的三个方面:创造意义的技能、人际交往能力和组织导航能力。如果教牧神学家已经在教授这些技能，我们还错过了什么?也许这是与牧师工作前沿的实践者的更深层次的接触，这些人可以告诉学者理论和实践如何发挥作用，橡皮击中道路。我们希望这个特别的问题有助于激发学者和牧师之间在许多特定背景下的更多对话。这些作者也提醒我们，牧师们自己也经历了各种形式的
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2050969
W. Payne
ABSTRACT All just societies recognize the intrinsic right of people to practice their faith in accordance with their conscience. In order to practice faith, people need easy access to religious specialists who facilitate the free exercise of religion. When institutions and government agencies erect barriers that separate people from their spiritual care providers, the spiritual needs and essential rights of the people are compromised. This article argues that spiritual care is essential and that chaplains should advocate for the religious needs of their people when they lack meaningful access to a faith-specific spiritual care provider.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059245
E. D. Jones
ABSTRACT Disenfranchised grief is the experience of grief where the loss, the style of grieving, or the griever is not or cannot be sufficiently recognized. It describes well what a great many underrepresented spiritual care providers experience at times during their clinical pastoral education – feeling as if one is a stranger – racially, socially, and culturally – in the exchange of care. This paper discusses this experience in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, ultimately endeavoring to stress the importance of being both seen and recognized.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059231
S. Rambo, Cheryl A. Giles
ABSTRACT Amidst forecasts about the future of theological education, the authors suggest that a spiritual care revolution is taking place, one that centers chaplains as the religious leaders of the future. This introduction situates the work of chaplains in the current moment and urges pastoral theologians to increase their ongoing investments in spiritual care education that is nimble and responsive to these changes. The authors organize insights around three basic questions that can serve as prompts for vital discussions about how to educate chaplains more effectively to meet current demands: What are we educating for? What are we educating chaplains to do? Where is the need? This issue features the research conducted from various collaborations around chaplaincy education and highlights the value of creating feedback loops between working chaplains, educators, and chaplaincy researchers.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2056355
Mary Elizabeth Toler
ABSTRACT For many white, Western European descendant-citizens of the United States who watched the horrific death of George Floyd and ensuing protests, the question of one’s racism has landed front and center in their consciousness in stark, new ways. This article offers a series of clinical and Christian theological reflections on the nature of race, racism, and anti-racism based on material gleaned from a series of clinical counseling encounters, including a verbatim from one particular session. The reflections include feedback from the Society of Pastoral Theology’s workshop I presented in June 2021. They are not intended to offer any exhaustive, definitive, proscriptive claims about race, racism, and anti-racism. Rather, the reflections are intended to be invitations to curiosity and to create avenues for future inquiry, particularly as it relates to pastoral counseling and the overall, ongoing formational work of raising consciousness around issues of race, culture, and ethnicity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059246
Feryal Salem
ABSTRACT Though a relatively new field, Islamic chaplaincy has become integral to many spiritual care and religious life divisions of public institutions that have undergone a significant shift towards a multifaith presence in approximately the last fifty years. These changes promote new opportunities in which Muslim chaplains can enrich religious life through their distinctive contributions to the field. Simultaneously, there are challenges that need to be addressed such as hiring practices that provide balanced support for Muslim chaplains, the avoidance of tokenization tendencies through ensuring the proper education of students training to become Muslim chaplains, and the need for such students to have their own space for development and formation that does not compromise their religious identities in Christian majority contexts. These challenges have facilitated creative solutions as well as calls for action from interfaith allies.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059247
Bilal W. Ansari
ABSTRACT Working from the insights of a chaplaincy encounter around death and burial rites, this essay argues for the education of Muslim chaplains that is grounded in Muslim pastoral theology. Muslim chaplains must be prepared to face intersecting sociological, psychological, racial, and cultural issues that arise in spiritual ministry. Lived theological education helps Muslim chaplains root and integrate spiritual care in one’s faith tradition and a theory of professional practice. Theological schools need to ensure that they are actively educating Muslim chaplains in ways that develop multidimensional cultural sensitivity and interpersonal skills that assist in navigating intersectional care experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.2005287
R. Lamothe
ABSTRACT This article argues that political violence is unjustifiable as a basis of forming a polis. To make this case, a brief explication of the notions “political” and “political violence” is proffered. From here I claim that political violence is inimical to civic care and civic faith that founds a polis' space of speaking and acting together. I then shift to a Christian pastoral theological framework, arguing that political violence contradicts the revelation of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and is, therefore, unjustifiable. More specifically, the incarnation reveals a non-sovereign God of infinite, indeterminate care as the principle for organizing human relations-the ecclesia/polis. I also argue that Jesus' forgiveness of the Roman soldiers can be grasped in terms of Giorgio Agamben's notion of inoperativity, wherein the apparatuses and grammar of the terroristic forms of Roman political violence are rendered inoperative as a way of organizing human relations.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.2010993
Kyung Lee, Danjuma Gibson
The JPT seeks pastoral theological essays for a special issue on the topics related to the current Coronavirus-19 pandemic. Suggested topics may include pastoral theological reflections on Anti-Asian Racism, Xenophobia, equity implications of the pandemic, the meaning of suffering, the role of religious communities in response to the pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on religion and religious practices, and other topics you deem appropriate to this call.
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