Description: What if we are more multiple as persons than
traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our
multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a
loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions
of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society? And how
can an appreciation of our multiplicity help liberate the voices of
those who live at the margins, both of society and within our own
complex selves? Braided Selves explores these questions from the
perspectives of postmodern pastoral psychology and Trinitarian
theology, with implications for the practice of spiritual care,
counseling, and psychotherapy. This volume gathers ten years of
essays on this theme by preeminent pastoral theologian Pamela
Cooper-White, whose writings bring into dialogue postmodern,
feminist, and psychoanalytic theory and constructive theology.
Endorsements: ""The polyvalent beauty of the titular metaphor
weaves right through this powerful new contribution to relational
theology--in its most currently postmodern theory and practice.
Managing to remain breathtakingly readable, this text offers its
manifold gifts to the whole range of theological disciplines. Braid
this book into your lives, your ministries, your studies, your
selves "" --Catherine Keller Professor of Constructive Theology
Drew Theological School ""Braided Selves is a remarkable collection
of richly nuanced, provocative, debatable, generative, and above
all, truly important essays at the intersection of psychoanalytic
theory, theological anthropology, constructive theology, and
pastoral theology by one who may now be the most profound and
searching pastoral theologian of our time. Pamela Cooper-White
writes in a fluid, interesting, and highly readable style, while
probing the depths of some of the most important issues in
contemporary, postmodern theological anthropology and clinical and
pastoral practice. This book cannot be too highly recommended.""
--Rodney J. Hunter Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology Candler
School of Theology, Emory University ""Braided Selves is what
authentic theology could be in the twenty-first century:
theoretically rich without fleeing into metaphysical and rhetorical
abstractions; rooted in human experience without degenerating into
sentimentality and cliche. Anyone who cares about religious
reflection in this troubled time should read this book. It will be
a loss if Dr. Cooper-White's text is in any way restricted only to
those who have 'pastoral' in their job description."" --James W.
Jones Professor of Psychology of Religion Rutgers University About
the Contributor(s): Pamela Cooper-White is the Ben G. and Nancye
Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling
at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, and Director of
the Atlanta Theological Association's ThD program in Pastoral
Counseling. In 2005 she received the American Association of
Pastoral Counselors' national award for Distinguished Achievement
in Research and Writing. Cooper-White holds PhDs from Harvard
University and from the Institute for Clinical Social Work in
Chicago. She is the author of Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy
and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007), Shared Wisdom: Use
of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (2004), and The Cry of
Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church's Response (1995).
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