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...
| Publicado no: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2016]
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Pastoral psychology
Ano: 2016, Volume: 65, Número: 6, Páginas: 743-757 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | RG Pastoral |
| Outras palavras-chave: | 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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| Resumo: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0737-x |