scholarly journals A holistic approach to pastoral care and poverty

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Janse van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Church

The previous approaches to pastoral care are no longer adequate or effective for addressing the many issues related to poverty. The church has done wonderful work in terms of Christian charity. However, more needs to be done to improve the worsening situation of the poor significantly. The clear distinction between pastoral care and Christian charity is a luxury that is no longer affordable. Once we have a holistic understanding of pastoral care and counselling, we will find that we cannot possibly restrict our pastoral attention to encouraging the poor, to giving random advice and to praying. A holistic pastoral theology could lead to empowerment and should be a key concept in pastoral care with poor people and societies. The article offers a theological theory for a holistic approach and some implications of the praxis of counselling.

scholarly journals Pelayanan Bersama Komunitas Sebagai Model Pelayanan Pastoral Berbasis Paradigma Komunal-Kontekstual dalam Teologi Pastoral

Kurios ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Alvian Apriano
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pastoral Care Ministry ◽  
The Church ◽  
Care Ministry

Pastoral care ministry persists in the minister's concept as the sole actor of pastoral ministry in the church. On the other hand, there has been growing awareness that pastoral care ministry also gives space to members of the congregation to presenting the pastoral care ministry in context. In these persist circumstances, questions arise is how do pastoral care ministry gives space to members? Can the paradigm be expanded by taking into account the communal context? What kind of model does it produce? With the development of a communal-contextual paradigm in pastoral theology began to raise awareness of expanding that understanding. In addition, contemporary pastoral theologians show that there has been a paradigm shift in pastoral ministry with communal nuance; however, the ministry also gives space to the members of the congregation in practice. My aim is to construct the concept and model of pastoral care ministry with the community within the framework of communal-contextual paradigm.AbstrakDiskusi pelayanan pastoral dalam teologi pastoral bertahan dalam konsep pendeta sebagai aktor tunggal pelayanan tersebut di dalam gereja hampir tiga dekade belakangan ini. Padahal, di sisi yang lain, sudah muncul dan berkembang paradigma bahwa pelayanan pastoral juga tentang pemberian ruang terhadap anggota jemaat secara umum yang hadir dalam pelayanan pendeta dalam konteksnya. Di dalam keadaan ini, muncullah pertanyaan-pertanyaan tentang apakah pelayanan pastoral hanya merupakan tugas seorang pendeta? Dapatkah paradigma tersebut diperluas dengan memperhatikan konteks pelayanan yang nilai komunalitasnya tinggi? Seperti apa model yang dihasilkannya? Dengan berkembangnya paradigma komunal-kontekstual dalam pelayanan pastoral mulai muncul kesadaran memperluas pemahaman itu. Di tambah lagi, pemikiran teolog pastoral kontemporer baik dari Indonesia dan Barat juga menunjukkan bahwa telah ada pergeseran paradigma tentang pelayanan pastoral yang bernuansa komunalitas di dalam suatu konteks, sehingga pelayanan tersebut juga memposisikan anggota jemaat secara umum. Penelitian ini berupaya menawarkan konsep dan model pelayanan pastoral yang kontekstual dengan menempatkan partisipasi komunitas guna memberi warna lain bagi pelayanan pastoral yang selama ini bertahan.

Latin America

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Richard Shaull
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Poor ◽  
New Situation ◽  
The Church

As poor people in Latin America rapidly emerge as a new social class, they are creating a new situation that calls for the church to become a “church of the poor.”

Pastoral Care and the Reformation in Germany

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
R. W. Scribner
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Empty Shell ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Traditional Church ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Parish Clergy ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Church

Of the numerous criticisms and expressions of grievance directed at the Church in Germany on the eve of the Reformation, the most devastating was the charge of inadequate pastoral care. Reformers of all complexions bewailed the poor state of the parish clergy and the inadequate manner in which they provided for the spiritual needs of their flocks. At the very least, the parish clergy were ill-educated and ill-prepared for their pastoral tasks; at the very worst, they exploited those to whom they should have ministered, charging for their services, treating layfolk as merely a means of increasing their incomes, and, above all, resorting to the tyranny of the spiritual ban to uphold their position. The popular propaganda of the early Reformation fully exploited such deficiencies, exposing the decay in root and branch of a system of pastoral care depicted as no more than an empty shell, a facade of a genuine Christian cure of souls. The attack on the traditional Church was highly successful, successful enough to provoke an ecclesiastical revolution, and almost a socio-political revolution as well. It was, indeed, so successful that generations of historians of the Reformation have seen the condition of the pre-Reformation Church largely through the eyes of its critics and opponents. This negative image was matched by an idealized view of what succeeded it: where the old Church had failed the Christian laity, indeed, so much that they had virtually fallen into the hands of the Devil, the new Church offered solutions, a new way forward, a new standard of pastoral care and concern that created a new ideal, the Lutheran pastor, who cared for his flock as a kindly father, a shepherd who would willingly give up his life for his sheep.

scholarly journals Ubodzy w diecezji augustowskiej czyli sejneńskiej

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Witold Jemielity
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Bank Accounts ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Church

Each parish had to provide maintenance to all the poor living on that area. Some of them used to live by the church in the parish houses called hospitals while others lived in villages. Few hospitals used the money put down to their bank accounts by the rich, the others were supported thanks to the alms of the parishioners and help of the parish-priest. Residents of hospitals cleaned the church, rang the bell for church, served during the mess or helped on the farm. Other poor people were called beggers. The parish-priest kept a record of beggers, issued certificates qualifying them to alms on the area of his parish, encouraged his parishioners to generosity. Civil authorities often criticized the quantity of beggers, idlers and wanderers. They tried to find any solution even by sending such people to the army or by forcing them to work. They mainly stressed that that was the duty of the parish. After the January Uprising communes got self-governed powers and since then they took care of the poor. On the turn of the century charity organizations came into being.

scholarly journals Faith from the Underside of History: Three Evangélico Responses to the Plight of the Poor in Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Raimundo César Barreto Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Social Ethics ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Christian Social Ethics ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Eye Opening ◽  
The Church

This essay presents three significant Protestant responses to the plight of the poor in Brazil. There is a presupposition that all ethical and theological endeavor is an act of response to a previous action, and part of a dialogue that takes place between different people and different realities that not only encounter each other, but which also deeply affect and transform each other. These constant encounters and dialogues provoke transformations both in the realities encountered by moral agents, and in the moral agents’ responses to those realities. Any Christian social ethics coming from a given reality of suffering and oppression must take that context seriously, and must respond to the needs that present themselves to it. It ought to be an ethics of response—one that engages its surrounding context in dialogue. The encounter with the poor and oppressed other has the power of bringing with it a conversion to those involved in that encounter. These eye-opening and life-transforming encounters with those who experience living on the underside of history can liberate the church and reshape theology. Keywords: Social Ethics, Brazil Evangelical Church, Poor People.

scholarly journals Karl Rahner and the practical theology

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
August Laumer
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Karl Rahner ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Church

It is surprising that Karl Rahner (1904-1984), as a systematic theologian, provided essential impulses for practical theology. But he played an important role in planning and editing the "Handbuch der Pastoraltheologie" (1964-1972). The basis for this work was Rahners view of practical theology as a science of the self-fulfillment of the church in the respective current situation. However, this ecclesial conception of pastoral theology soon encountered opposition. On the other hand, his demand for a “new mystagogy” was often taken up for concepts of mystagogical pastoral care and mystagogical learning.

The Status of Slaves in Prehistoric Scandinavian Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-310
Author(s):  
Stefan Brink
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metal ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Major Player ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Many

In this final chapter I am trying to sum up the discussion and to present some kind of theory of how Viking-Age slavery looked like. The hypothesis is that Scandinavian Vikings were a major player in the emerging slave trade in Europe, but the poor people they seized in both the East and the West, mainly were sold off at slave markets. What the Scandinavians desired was probably not bonded humans to bring home to Scandinavia as slaves, but precious metal, especially silver. The many hoards with huge deposits of silver, found in Scandinavia, especially on Gotland, may therefore be the result of an intensive and lucrative slave trade. This hypothesis also leads to another assumption, namely that the number of slaves in Viking-Age Scandinavia was not that great; to label Scandinavia during this era a “slave society” is therefore, probably, misleading. Another hypothesis pursued is that slavery and freedom are difficult to see as absolute categories. There were in some cases a gliding scale between a free and an unfree; a legally unfree person could have a socially elevated position, and so on.

scholarly journals Commitment to Church of the Poor in Service at the Cinta Orang Miskin Foundation, Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Saefnat Saetban ◽  
Agustinus Faot
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Practical Level

  Research on the commitment of the poor at the Cinta Orang Miskin Foundation is motivated by the reality of academic and practical gaps. From an academic perspective, researchers have never found the commitment of the poor at the Cinta Orang Miskin Foundation, even though the number of poor people is committed for the church to thrive. Currently the number reaches 1,300 people. On a practical level, this research wants to explore the decisions of these poor people to find out their commitment to involvement in the Cinta Orang Miskin Foundation (COM), which is served by Pastor Gunawan Setiadarma in Surabaya, East Java, which has experienced significant growth from 23 congregations to 1,300 people. . The problem of poverty is a problem that is being faced by the nation (nations in the world in general. The Indonesian nation itself cannot be separated from the poverty problem. The economic crisis that occurs within the Indonesian nation has an impact on all aspects of people's lives. It can be seen from the existence of people who live in poverty, live in slum environments, and the number of children (street children who are scattered in cities (cities in Indonesia). During this economic crisis, the number of street children in Indonesia increased drastically.

scholarly journals The Church, the Pulpit, and the Poor. the Role of Preaching in Poor Relief Efforts in the Thinking of Samuel Mccomb (1864-1938)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Simuț Ciprian
Keyword(s):  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Human Value ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
The Church

The problem of the poor has been a constant in the life of nations. There have always been poor people to whom society, governments, and the Church have been looking in various ways across the ages. One important aspect is the way the Church has behaved in relation to the poor, because it is the institution that preaches a certain kind of moral code, and a certain kind of human value. This paper focuses on the role of preaching and the role of the Church in poor relief efforts, as presented in the writings of Samuel McComb (1864-1938). The main argument in the thought of McComb is that the Church will always need to be involved in poor relief efforts, but not simply by helping the poor with material needs, but also by offering spiritual guidance. These efforts should be coupled with the preparing of the believers to be directly involved in poor relief, based on a moral code, which is presented and explained from the pulpit.

scholarly journals A structured approach to pastoral care and poverty

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Janse van Rensburg ◽  
Johann Breed
Keyword(s):  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pastoral Counselling ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Many ◽  
Biblical Perspective ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
The Church

Although the plight of the poor and Christian benevolence is a topic often discussed in scientific and popular literature, the existing research is not nearly enough to address the many complicated issues surrounding the subject. Many reasons for this sad state of affairs may exist, one being the lack of the necessary skills to apply biblical and economic principles in order to make a marked difference. This article presented a biblical perspective on the caring of the poor and suggested a few contextual principles for pastoral counselling. Forces were joined with economic insights and the experience of Local Economic Development to empower the church to make a substantial difference to the plight of the poor. This approach could give structure to efforts that often achieve very little in terms of lasting results.

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