Certain Moral Challenges for Pastoral Care in Today's Early Twenty-First-Century World
In the Judeo-Christian and Black church traditions, all acts, including acts of historical remembrance and forgetting and pastoral care, are grounded in God's weakness, also known as God's surrounding grace and power, glory and transcendence (1 Corinthians 1:18-25). God's inescapable...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2020]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-76 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology RG Pastoral care |
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Gratitude
B Wisdom B Discerning questions B Courage B Mature forgiveness B Critical questions B Fears B Remembrance B Moral challenge |
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| Summary: | In the Judeo-Christian and Black church traditions, all acts, including acts of historical remembrance and forgetting and pastoral care, are grounded in God's weakness, also known as God's surrounding grace and power, glory and transcendence (1 Corinthians 1:18-25). God's inescapable presence is evident in Psalm 139. According to Psalm 139 and 1 Corinthians 1:25, followers are morally challenged, every hour and every day, to discover anew that finite human realities are grounded in God's creative weakness, inescapable presence, infinite grace and glory, and justice and unconditional love. Therefore, there is joy in being wrong, and we can learn from one another as well as from our own mistakes—if we move ahead with a discerning wisdom and moral courage. We need to be freed from our selfish ingratitude, shortsightedness, and affinity for deceit, certain fears, and dishonesty. This implies a transcending power that does not belong to humans. To be freed from dishonesty, pretense, and binding fears takes trust, imagination and power, and courage and wisdom. It also takes humor and a sense of mature self-other forgiveness (a final form of love) when facing certain undeniable human realities. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-019-00893-2 |