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Transforming Shame - A Pastoral Response (Hardcover)
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Transforming Shame - A Pastoral Response (Hardcover)
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Explore shame's revelatory and transformative potential within
Christianity and the Church Learn to understand shame to allow for
positive change in your clients and parishioners. This book
explores psychological, spiritual, and theological aspects of shame
and shame's transformative potential. It will help pastoral care
givers and mental health workers to identify shame issues and
become agents of healing. By examining shame in the gospel accounts
of the life, ministry, and death of Jesus, it shows that shame is a
vital part of what defines us as human, and how shame can draw us
into the mystery of our relationship with God. From the author:
This book develops the thesis that shame is a necessary and
ontological part of the human condition. Shame can become
pathological, undergirding and dominating the entire personality,
making it impossible to feel oneself either part of the collective
or an individual in one's own right. Transformation of shame is a
large part of the psychic meaning of the Christ event, what
Christianity is about. Transformation of shame is the experience of
grace. The great saints and icons of Christianity have used the
Christ event to transform shame and experience grace. The more
completely they have done this, the deeper their experience of
unity with God. With Transforming Shame: A Pastoral Response,
you'll explore: the phenomenological meaning of shame the
psychological meaning, implications, and etiology of shame shame in
the context of scripture and Christian theology the methodology for
contextualizing theories of depth psychology in theology and
religious experience human defense mechanisms to shame shame's
usefulness in coming to a deeper understanding of personal identity
the role of the institutional church in helping its people find
meaning in shame and experiencing the grace that comes from shame's
transformation how to address the Church's role in fostering toxic
shame With practical examples drawn from pastoral ministry and a
thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach, this book will help you
understand both the psychology and the spirituality of shame and
make the essential connections between the two. Extensive
references and a handy bibliography point the way to further
reading on this fascinating subject.
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