Ministry of Presence and Presence of the Spirit in Pastoral Visitation

1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
Janet Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Visitation ◽  
Ministry Of Presence

Toward a Theology of the Ministry of Presence in Chaplaincy

2009 ◽  
Vol os-52 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Holm
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Common Grace ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Ministry Of Presence

This paper examines the role and relationships of Christian chaplains in non-church settings. Covington's and Smith's description of presence as exercised by nurses has been adapted to fit the work of chaplains in order to provide a working definition. Next, a transcendental understanding of presence is explored, beginning with a description of an encounter with the presence of God. Third, the biblical understandings of the presence of God are examined. Fourth, the author draws on philosophical theology to consider the extent to which chaplains, nurses, clients and patients who are not believers experience the presence of God in encounters that might otherwise be described in terms of a caring presence. Fifth, he considers the role that common grace plays in this ministry. The conclusion incorporates discussion of a future work that might be done in this area.

Paying Peter and Paul: Benefits of a Hospital-Based Lay Pastoral Visitation Program

1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-261
Author(s):  
Gregg D. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Pastoral Visitation

Describes six assumptions supporting the notion of hospital-based lay pastoral visitations, notes the potential benefits of such a program, and details an actual example growing out of the identified assumptions.

SCT® Centering into a Ministry of Presence: A Unifying Scientific Path from Brain and Mind to Heart and Soul

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Richard M. O'Neill ◽  
William B. Reynolds ◽  
Terry Ruth Culbertson
Keyword(s):  
Ministry Of Presence

Pastoral Visitations: Spaces of Negotiation in Andean Indigenous Parishes

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Standard Means ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pastoral Visitation ◽  
The Church

In the Andes, the pastoral visitation of Indian parishes usually evokes the idea of a strongly oppositional relationship between the Church and local society. This vision, lacking in nuance, has been widely disseminated both within the academy and outside it. Although it derives from a serious academic interest in discovering and analyzing the common thread of the Church's evangelization policy in Peru, this stance, centered on the problem of the “extirpation of idolatry,” has been progressively emptied of content and today tends to serve as the standard means of filling gaps in the understanding of the history of Andean peoples during the colonial period.

1630 Memorial of Fray Francisco Alonso de Jesus on Spanish Florida's Missions and Natives

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Hann
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Pastoral Visitation ◽  
Council House

For the study of Spanish Florida's missions and natives the 1630 memorial by Fray Francisco Alonso de Jesus is a most important document that, strangely, has been little used to date. It ranks in significance with the 1675 letter of Bishop Gabriel Díaz Vara Calderón covering his pastoral visitation of Florida, published in 1936 by the Smithsonian Institution Press in a translation by Lucy N. Wenhold. Fray Alonso's memorial covers some of the same ground as the bishop's letter, but contains additional information dating from almost a half century earlier just before the beginning of the formal evangelization of the province of Apalachee. Fray Alonso covers topics such as the characteristics of the land, its trees and plants and minerals, its Indians and their customs, appearance, clothing, houses, council house, languages, government, inheritance system, tribute payment to native leaders, games, music, and dance, burial practices in heathen times, heathens who were clamoring for baptism in 1630, the number of doctrinas and villages and places belonging to the doctrinas, the number of Christians and catechumens, and the manner of construction of the churches.

Protestant Press Relations in the United States, 1900–1930

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Ferré
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
Clear Sign ◽  
Pastoral Visitation ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Church

Protestant churches in the early twentieth century were vexed by dwindling attendance, a clear sign of their declining social authority. The Reverend William C. Skeath complained about “the masses of the passively religious who have closed their ears to the sermon subject and their doors to pastoral visitation.” Likewise, inHow to Fill the Pews, Ernest Eugene Elliott said that because no more than two-fifths of church members went to church on any given Sunday, the church had ceased to be the chief forum in American public life.

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