The Librarian as an Image of Pastoral Care

Drawing upon Anton Boisen's image of the living human document and Bonnie Miller-McLemore's idea of the living human web, this paper explores the librarian as an image of pastoral care. By paying attention to the testimonies of a number of librarians and to my own experience as a pastoral...

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Publicado en:Pastoral psychology
Autor principal: Arjona, Rubén (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2016]
En: Pastoral psychology
Año: 2016, Volumen: 65, Número: 6, Páginas: 743-757
Clasificaciones IxTheo:RG Pastoral
Otras palabras clave:B Living human web
B Adolf von Harnack
B Pastoral Theology
B BOISEN, Anton
B Library science
B Anton Boisen
B Pastoral Care
B Impartiality
B Individuality
B Human documents
B Libraries
B Kindness
B Books
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Sumario:Drawing upon Anton Boisen's image of the living human document and Bonnie Miller-McLemore's idea of the living human web, this paper explores the librarian as an image of pastoral care. By paying attention to the testimonies of a number of librarians and to my own experience as a pastoral theologian and a library worker, I suggest three areas of intersection between pastoral theology and librarianship: attention to individuality, a sense of impartiality, and kindness. The paper concludes by pointing out that the librarian and the pastoral theologian share the task of defending the uniqueness of individual experience in a culture that tends toward conformism.
ISSN:1573-6679
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0737-x