In the last decade, the focus of pastoral theology has shifted
dramatically from care defined as counseling to care understood
within a wider social, political, and religious context. Feminist
and womanist theory as well as feminist and womanist faith
convictions have played a key role in this development.
According to the authors, feminists and womanists in pastoral
theology have begun to reconstruct the definitions, parameters, and
commitments of pastoral care and counseling. These changes have
critical implications for care within congregations and for the
understanding of theology in seminaries and dignity schools.
Yet these developments in the theory and practice of pastoral
theology and their broader ramifications have not been carefully
analyzed or even acknowledged by pastoral theologian, minister, and
religion scholar alike. This is due to a failure to articulate
clear understandings of the field, the gap between congregational
ministry and higher education in religion, and conflicts in
theological education in general over the place of practice and
theory, experience, spirituality, and practical theology.
To redress these problems, this collection of essays has a
threefold aim. First, the book identifies the many changes
occurring in definitions of pastoral theology, care, and
counseling. Second, the volume defines and develops new methods and
approaches. Third, the authors attend to the implications of these
changes for congregational care and theological education. Roughly
speaking, the order of the chapters in this volume follows this
threefold agenda, moving from an exploration of the changes in
pastoral theology to its reconstruction to some of the implications
ofrecent innovations.
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