Faith Community/Parish Nurse Literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. E7-E8
Author(s):  
&NA;
Keyword(s):  
Faith Community ◽  
Parish Nurse

scholarly journals Hope and Advanced Breast Cancer: Engaging with the Parish Nursing Community to Explore Hope in Women with Advanced Breast Cancer in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-35
Author(s):  
Agatha Ogunkorode ◽  
Lorraine Holtslander
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Advanced Breast Cancer ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
The Body ◽  
Advanced Breast ◽  
Parish Nursing ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Parish Nurses ◽  
Parish Nurse

  Women with advanced breast cancer living in Nigeria face many obstacles and are very reliant on the support of faith communities, including parish nurses, who have a strong presence in Nigeria. Research with people with advanced cancer has shown the importance of hope as a source of strength and an important spiritual concept in their lives. Parish nursing focuses on the promotion of health within the context of the values, beliefs, and practices of the faith community. What distinguishes parish nursing care is the intentional integration of the body, mind, and spirit to create wholeness, health, and a sense of well-being even when the patient’s illness is not curable. This specialty nursing practice holds that all persons are sacred and must be treated with respect and dignity. In line with these beliefs, the parish nurse serves her community with compassion, mercy, presence, and justice. Community-based research is needed to explore what hope means for women in Nigeria with advanced breast cancer, in order to build essential and innovative nursing knowledge and provide opportunities to identify meaningful interventions and ways the faith community can support these women, their families, and their communities.

Faith Community/Parish Nurse Literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Dandridge
Keyword(s):  
Faith Community ◽  
Parish Nurse

Islam: The Unpillaged Eastern Religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Faith Community ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Feng Shui ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Religion ◽  
Authoritative Text ◽  
Cultural Borrowing ◽  
Ways Of Life

Understanding why Islam has contributed little to contemporary religious and spiritual innovations allows us to see the principles underlying cultural borrowing. With its creator God, authoritative text, religious dogmas, and defined ways of life, Islam is too much like Christianity for cultural appropriation, and there is a considerable Muslim presence in the West that constrains borrowing. Such appropriation is easiest when ideas are not embedded in a large faith community (feng shui is an example), when they are retrieved from an ancient and undocumented past (as with Celtic Christianity), or when they are entirely fictional (as with the supposed characteristics of Atlantis).

scholarly journals Review article: Jesus’ resurrection in Joseph’s garden

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Estelle Dannhauser
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Church

The article is a lengthy review of the book Jesus’ resurrection in Joseph’s garden by P.J.W. (Flip) Schutte. The book represents a quest to trace the relationship between Jesus’ resurrection, myth and canon. Schutte finds the origin of events underlying the biblical canon in proclamation. His focus in the book is the proclamation of the death and resurrection of Christ, which, in its developmental stages, hinged on the life and death of the historical Jesus. Proclamation developed into a mythical narrative that became the foundational myth for the Christ cult, validating its existence and rituals. With the growth and institutionalisation of the faith community (church), came an increased production of literature, causing the power-wielding orthodoxy to identify a body of literature containing the ‘truth’ and ‘correct teaching’, thus establishing the authoritative canon. In, through, behind and beyond Jesus of Nazareth, Schutte has perceived a canon behind the canon: a God of love. In Jesus, the man of myth with historical roots who has become to us the observable face of God, Schutte confesses the kerygma to open up before him. The proclamation therefore extends an invitation to join in a mythological experience and an encounter with God whose love is preached in the metaphor called Easter.

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