The Significance of Values & Moral Reflection for Pastoral Care & Counselling

2012 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Care Counselling

Káromkodásból katedrálist: lelkigondozás és spiritualitás összefüggései Jób könyvében

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-162
Author(s):  
Ágnes Bálint ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Maturity ◽  
Human Response ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Quest For Meaning ◽  
Sense Of Justice ◽  
Care Counselling

Abstract. A Cathedral Built on Swearing? Interrelations between Counselling and Spirituality in the Book of Job. Given its enormous exegetical potential, pastoral care could clearly lay hold more of the Book of Job’s kerygmatic rather than its psychological certainties. In addition to the Book of Job being often read as a case study about the suffering person’s sense of justice and quest for meaning, Job’s experience has a spiritual overtone as well: he is faced with the question of the true nature of God and the need to find an adequate human response to it. Also, the Book is indicative of how people respond to the suffering and what witness and support they offer. In this paper, I evaluate the counselling strategies in the Book of Job identified by Manfred Oeming. I pay special attention to Job’s wife, and I argue that she should not be considered a proper counsellor, as she herself is stricken by the same tragic events as is Job. Instead, she is a fellow sufferer, although acknowledged as such only by extracanonical literature. What is more, she may be identified as the partner or the first and foremost caregiver of the sufferer whose challenges and difficulties remain unidentified, unspoken of, and unaddressed most of the time. As for the spiritual issues aroused by suffering, I suggest that both counsellor and counsellee must reach spiritual maturity to be able to understand and accept their experience of suffering as a genuine experience of God, and so, given time, this may make space for God’s theophany and healing presence. Keywords: Book of Job, suffering, spirituality, pastoral care, counselling, fellow sufferer, caregiver

Ancient Comedy Reloaded: Aesthetics and Moral Reflection in Lessing’s Rewriting of Plautus

Monatshefte ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Giovanna Pinna
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reflection

Worship and Pastoral Care for the Dying

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Sung-Whan Park ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care

Epidemias y Religión

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-81
Author(s):  
Bruno Van der Maat
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Reflections

The current pandemic has seen some adverse reactions from the most diverse religious groups all over the world to government regulations. After having described some of their manifestations, this contribution analyzes what the Bible and some post biblical (patristic and Talmudic) traditions say about illness and pandemics. As it is ascertained that these sources contain very limited material on these subjects, the third part of this article proposes some ethical reflections regarding the official response to the pandemic as well as some pastoral implications. Key Words: Pandemic, Religion, Bible, Talmud, Pastoral Care.

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