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ISBN-13: 9780800630737
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
By Donald Capps
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Local release date: 10/08/1998
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 380g
Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works[HRCV9]

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Author Biography
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Google Preview: Pastoral counseling, Donald Capps believes, should not be just another service-like chartered tours-that churches provide for their members. Rather, he views counseling as essential to the religious task and identity of any religious congregation or parish. In his new, more radical model of pastoral counseling, Capps combines the innovative techniques of brief counseling or therapy with recent insights about the uses of narrative in pastoral care. Itself enlivened by many stories, Capps' book explains how people "story" their lives-inspirationally, paradoxically, or miraculously-and the patterns they exhibit. He shows pastors how they can help people discover their own "story," discern its shape and direction, and move constructively to find new understandings or possibilities in their situation. Through pastoral counseling, Capps affirms, congregations can become constructive environments in which people find new grounds for hope.; Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.; Preface Introduction: Counseling in the Congregational Context The Stories Clients Tell The Inspirational Story: The Art of the Power of Suggestion The Pardoxical Story: The Art of Untying Knots The Miracle Story: The Art of Identifying Exceptions Social Gossip and Pastoral Counseling Epilogue: The Art of Holding On Loosely Notes Index; Google Preview content