By engaging the reader in a process which parallels the pastoral counseling method--extending a conversation of revising and refining questions--Schlauch illustrates the content of his thinking through his carefully crafted presentation, maintaining that pastoral counseling is, at its heart, healing through "faithful companioning".
A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty
Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty was prepared specifically for pastors and lay leaders who want to invite their whole congregations to engage in faith-based community organizing to address poverty and its root causes. This practical resource will help them grow in their understanding and motivate ......
In Faith-Based Health Justice, a stellar assembly of scholars mines critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors to the volume consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, ......
A deep and rich description of the Christian life that responds to God's love for all of us and celebrates our commitment to him. Drawing on the Bible and the Christian tradition-including writers like Martin Luther, Henri Nouwen, Dorothee Soelle, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Evelyn Underhill-Brame presents a clear and inspiring study of the ......
James Childs's concise and compelling introduction is based on twenty years of teaching and writing in Christian ethics. Illuminating his case with examples from business, medicine, and public policy dilemmas, Childs constructs an original and comprehensive proposal for Christian ethics"dialogical ethics"one that resonates well with ......
Created by contributors with varied experiences in activism, faith, policy, and social change, Faith in Action will deepen readers' perspectives on important issues so that they may make a real impact.
James Fowler's work as the originator of faith development research -- his use of the theories of Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson for theology -- has been widely acclaimed for its profound impact on the field of religious education, and for its promise for other fields.
The twentieth century witnessed considerable debate over the question of the possibility of a "Christian philosophy." Two major figures of that revival were Etienne Gilson and Bernard Lonergan, both of whom read Aquinas in quite different ways on key questions. Nonetheless, this work brings these two authors into conversation.
