Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
'This is a superb, beautifully written book. The work has been very well conceived in content and form and carried out with great sensitivity and clarity. The author applies the material and method of Karl Barth's theology to pastoral. counseling, in which she brings theological thinking and clinical psychological thinking into a remarkable correlation, doing so with convincing power and commanding effectiveness...What a great boon it is for theological and pastoral training to have such a profound feminine mind to penetrate so intuitively, delicately, and effectively into human problems.' --Thomas F. Torrance, Univ. of Edinburgh
Synopsis
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This volume lays out an important new interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between theology and psychology in the work of pastoral counseling. Hunsinger sets forth a method for relating theology and psychology from a Barthian theological perspective. Her work shows that Barth's theology provides a wealth of material for pastoral counselors who wish to bring a consistent theological perspective to the interpretive task.
Table of Contents
Pastoral counseling as a ministry of the church : the promise of Karl Barth -- Barth and counseling: a survey : Shirley Guthrie, Dorothy Martyn, Thomas Oden, Daniel Price : a dialogue at the theoretical level between Barth's theological anthropology and object relations psychology -- The Chalcedon pattern, critique of Thurneysen, critique of Edinger, critique of Tillich -- God's representation and knowledge of God: methods and norms : Rizzuto's psychoanalytic study : representation of God -- Case study : Eva and her "black dispairs" : a paradigmatic case, a psychological perspective : the dynamics of shame, a theological perspective : the dynamics of grace.