Hospital Chaplaincy As Agapeic Intervention

The notion of hospital chaplaincy raises significant concerns, because it provides for the possibility that the chaplain becomes a generic chaplain rather than a member of a particular faith. Despite these reservations, however, I think that Mennonites should serve as hospital chaplains. Instead of...

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Main Author: Kotva, Joseph J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 1998
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: 257-275
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Summary:The notion of hospital chaplaincy raises significant concerns, because it provides for the possibility that the chaplain becomes a generic chaplain rather than a member of a particular faith. Despite these reservations, however, I think that Mennonites should serve as hospital chaplains. Instead of seeing themselves as chaplains to all, though, Mennonites ought to see the service they provide as analogous to relief and development work. This would make Mennonite chaplaincy a form of what Mennonite scholar C. Norman Krause calls “agapeic intervention,” which would allow for the ministry to the sick without requiring genericism.
ISSN:1744-4195
Contains:Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1076/chbi.4.3.257.6901