Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759043
R. Hunter
Summary Like any conference focused on a critically important issue, ‘The Bible as Pastor’ offered a rich, diverse and exceptionally stimulating feast of ideas. What follows is an attempt to construct a concise summary of what seem to have been the conference's fundamental and pervasive themes, insights and questions. Together they form a series of challenges posed to all those who use the Bible pastorally.
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759049
P. Endean
The (Roman) Catholic Church is a large and complex institution. Its members use the Bible in many different ways, and always have done. Here we can only be selective, and look simply at one particularly influential Catholic approach to the use of the Bible: the Spiritual Exercises of lgnatius Loyola. lt offers a method of praying the Bible oriented to the individual's spiritual growth, which nevertheless takes the text seriously. lgnatius' writing is hardly attractive. Here is what lgnatius offers for Christmas, in what is in fact one of his more expansive, lyrical passages:
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759045
Edward P. Wimberly
Over the years I have given priority to the faith story undergirding the Christian faith when formulating an understanding of the Bible as pastor. Such an approach is confessional rather than apologetic in the sense that philosophical and behavioural science theories play a role, but they do not play the dominant role. Apologetic theology draws on the method of correlation, and it gives the Christian faith story an equal role with philosophy and the behavioural sciences. This is done to make sure that theology is formulated in categories and a language that speak to modern people. Confessional theological approaches, however, are not preoccupied with speaking to the contemporary world using the language of the contemporary world. Rather, confessional narrative approaches recognize that Scripture within Christian communities functions to bring meaning to the lives of people. For example, Scripture provides its own interpretation of reality as the text provides its own interpretive framework to faith communities. In fact, in the narrative approach to Scripture, persons are drawn into the biblical world; that is, the Scriptures enable contemporary people to frame their situations, and their circumstances in the same way that the original audience hearing the text framed similar concerns (EIIingsen 1990: 22-9). More precisely, people frame their lives in light of the plot that lay underneath Bible stories, and it is this plot that links our contemporary lives with the lives of those in the ancient past. Therefore, there is no need to impose modern-language categories on the text. In short, Scripture will provide its own categories and language for understanding our contemporary experience, and this language is plot language. The plot behind the stories in the Bible is the key to understanding how the Bible functions pastorally. Scripture frames contemporary meaning in faith communities through drawing people into the faith-oriented plot embodied in the story of salvation. More precisely, the eschatological plot undergirds the biblical story of salvation. In African American Pastoral Care I define the eschatological plot:
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759032
Michael Sadgrove
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759031
Mark Folland
Summary The first part of this paper draws attention to the document Caring for the Spirit: A Strategy for the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Healthcare Workforce (2003), which concerns the development and modernization of Chaplaincy and Spiritual Healthcare in England. I outline its main themes and offer a short critique. The second part of the paper is a response to an article written by Chris Swift (Contact 144) which focused on the chaplain's professional identity and the need for theological re-engagement. I suggest that chaplaincy should positively embrace an evidence-based approach, placing it alongside theological re-engagement by seeing them as complementary. Here chaplains need to engage critically with an evidence-based culture through prioritizing a narrative and multi-professional approach to practice. Case studies, multi-disciplinary education and a prophetic approach are offered as supporting evidence.
本文的第一部分提请注意文件关怀精神:牧师和精神保健工作人员的战略(2003年)，其中涉及英国牧师和精神保健的发展和现代化。我概述了它的主要主题，并提供了一个简短的评论。论文的第二部分是对Chris Swift (Contact 144)的一篇文章的回应，这篇文章关注的是牧师的职业身份和神学重新参与的必要性。我建议牧师应该积极地采用循证方法，将其与神学重新接触放在一起，将它们视为互补。在这里，牧师需要通过优先考虑叙事和多专业的实践方法，批判性地参与以证据为基础的文化。案例研究，多学科教育和预言方法提供作为支持证据。
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759033
E. Stoddart
Summary This article explores the contemporary phenomenon of purchasing floral tributes to decorate the coffin at a funeral. It locates the practice in the historical context of Victorian cemetery design, the importing of new species of flowers and the romanticizing of grief. Examples of highly personalized tributes are described and discussed in the light of changing attitudes to death. Moves from a medical to a cultural model for death discourse are interpreted in the light of consumerism and linked with Walter's narrative model of grief. Adopting a practical theological critique, I suggest that floral tributes reinforce romanticism through their consumerist pressure. The commercial pressure on mourners is discussed from a theological perspective and opportunities for pastoral carers to contribute to shaping the tributes and their meaning are identified.
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759030
Christopher Baker
Summary The article explores the growing significance of hybridity as a concept for describing the pastoral mission and practical identity of the church in the 21st century. The idea of hybridity emerges from the post-colonial and globalized urban societies in which we now live. The article synthesizes the literary theory of the leading exponent of this idea, Homi Bhabha, and his concept of the Third Space, with a post-liberal theology of the blurred encounter. The article ends with a reflection on the significance of a hybrid Christology in the construction of local and performative theologies. Hybridity is a concept which has ‘come of age’. It is a major theory that increasingly shapes the way we understand our cultural and political world and our sense of identity. Hybridity is emerging from the disciplines of cultural studies and anthropology and is beginning to cross over into theological discourses. It is by nature a complex and ambiguous concept, but one which practical theology ignores at its peril if it wants to connect with the major problematic emerging in the 21st century: our relationship with the Other in our midst and how we engage with diversity and plurality. In this article I shall explore some of the ‘prejudices’ against hybridity that a practical theology will have to overcome. I then outline its emergence as an indispensable category for interpreting post-modern and post-colonial society. I look briefly at some case studies of churches working with hybrid identities and methodologies within their local communities. I then reflect on how hybridity could become a major tool in the working out of practical theology.
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759048
W. Challis
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13520806.2006.11759046
G. Oliver
Summary In this article I want to ask the question as to whether the conversation between Jesus and pastoral care today takes place between strangers or friends. To do this I look at three approaches: Jesus as example; some theological models; and the core values of Jesus. We end with a suggested outline reflection on a text.
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