Clarifies how to distinguish between healthy therapeutic
relationships and ones which have become abusive.
Carrie Doehring propose an approach to pastoral counseling that
focuses on taking care of ourselves and those we minister to by
monitoring power dynamics and relational boundaries in our
relationships. When we monitor the power struggles within us,
between us, in our communities and cultures, and the ways in which
we are pulled to disengagement and merger, we will be able to
prevent abuse and neglect. We will also be more likely to
experience empowering, empathic moments in our relationships, and
use these to "get our bearings."
Taking care by monitoring the interaction of power dynamics and
relational boundaries is a theological task. It is one way of
seeing our potential for sin and our capacity for violence. When
empowering empathic moments come, we glimpse who God is: both the
immanent God whose grace shines through our uniqueness and the
uniqueness of our relationships, and the transcendent God who goes
far beyond who we are.
Doehring uses case studies from the fiction of John Updike,
Sinclair Ross, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, and Margaret Atwood to
reflect on power dynamics and relational boundaries in cases of
clergy sexual misconduct, racism, and the dilemmas of faith in a
post-modern context.
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