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Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood - Pastoral Theology and Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback)
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Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood - Pastoral Theology and Intimate Partner Violence (Paperback)
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Description: Agency, Culture and Human Personhood"" uses feminist
theories, process and liberation theologies, psychodynamics and the
problem of intimate partner violence to develop a pastoral theology
of human agency. The turn to cultural context for understanding
what makes human beings who they are and do the things they do,
raises significant questions about human agency. To what extent is
agency, the human capacity to act, self-determined, and to what
extent is it determined by external factors? If we conceive of
persons with too little agency we negate the possibility for change
but too much agency negates the necessity for resistance movements.
Hoeft argues that agency arises ambiguously from and is constituted
of culture. She suggests that such a conception of agency enables
the church to foster in victims, perpetrators, and congregations
more resistance to violence and proposes practices of ministry that
can do just that. The book will challenge deeply ingrained notions
of personal responsibility and one's capacity to choose change, yet
offers concrete proposals for a creating a less violent world.
Endorsements: ""Jeanne Hoeft is one of the best of a new generation
of brilliant pastoral theologians. In Agency, Culture, and Human
Personhood she has made an original and much needed contribution to
the ministry of the churches in society by focusing on the question
of human agency and freedom. Instead of victims and perpetrators,
God has created complex human beings with various layers of freedom
and responsibility. Every church leader who is serious about
understanding human personhood from a Christian perspective must
read this book."" --James Newton Poling Professor of Pastoral Care,
Counseling, and Theology Garrett Evangelical Seminary ""In this
tightly woven and complex text, Jean Hoeft has constructed a rich
theological anthropology through which she explores the cultural
dynamics of both victimhood and resistance in intimate partner
violence. Hoeft grounds her proposal in process and liberation
theologies, object-relations psychology, and a post-structuralist
understanding of embodied agency. She concludes the book with a
helpful framework for a pastoral care of resistance. I think this
text breaks new ground in understanding the dynamics of intimate
violence and the potential for a pastoral care of empowerment,
agency, and resistance. I recommend it highly."" --Christie Cozad
Neuger Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care Brite
Divinity School ""I did not expect to feel more hopeful after
reading this book-but that was its effect on me. To arguments that
show how we become victims or perpetrators of violence through
complex cultural processes, Hoeft adds a much-needed constructive
dimension: culture constricts our agency, yes, but also enables us
to embody the capacity to resist violence. --Kathleen J. Greider
Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling Claremont School of
Theology About the Contributor(s): Jeanne Hoeft is Assistant
Professor of Pastoral Care at Saint Paul School of Theology in
Kansas City. She is a United Methodist clergywoman, former parish
pastor, and has worked in the area of domestic violence for almost
20 years.
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