Douglas B. Olds

Architectures of Grace in Pastoral Care (eBook, ePUB)

Virtue as the Craft of Theology beyond Strategic and Authoritative Biblicism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An updating of virtue ethics for modern pastors and the souls they care for, this book proposes innovations for the craft of ministry in the theology of grace--how virtues radiate to tame strife and other destructive behaviors. It presents a comprehensive alternative to the top-down proclamations of "biblical counseling" approaches that try to impart, from an eclectic biblicist lens, cognitive authorities for consequential change. Instead, Christ's bottom-up practice of virtues heals and fulfills by focusing on neighbor first and subordinating the ego's strategic considerations--more graciously spreading God's will in ministry through participatory and experiential knowledge. Virtuous pastoral ministries integrate the common grace of humanist learning to address the range of the care seeker's contemporary context--her upbringing, struggles, and affiliations. This book presents more the "how" than the "what" of pastoral theology: more how the dance of mutuality and chivalry enters the spiritual flow of healing metaphysical grace than the "what" of right "belief." Even so, pastoral care from the virtue ethical approach inevitably reconsiders "vending machine" theologies, destructive doctrinal boundaries, and context-lite biblicisms. This presentation introduces how virtue ethics apply to ministry, the household, individual trauma and addictions, and the contemporary political and cultural arena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666766998
• Artikelnr.: 68162894

Autorenporträt

Douglas B. Olds is an ordained teaching elder and minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with experience in chaplaincy and publications in the journal Pastoral Psychology. In addition to degrees in ministry, he received the Master of Public Policy with advanced qualifications in classical ethics and political analysis.