The Spiritual Dimension of Therapy, Second Edition
Increasingly, pastoral counselors feel the need to integrate spirituality into their therapy. A therapist and theologian shows how much richer therapy is when it calls attention to spirituality in addressing human struggles. Written especially for those whose training tends toward the straightforwardly psychological, "Hidden Spring" offers a ......
Miles confronts the issues surrounding family violence, its causes, and possible solutions and discusses how all people are affected and can help address the issue. With an honest and down-to-earth tone, this book provides guidance and information for laypeople as well as for individuals experienced with the complex nature of domestic violence.
Helps adults talk to children in meaningful ways, nurturing their faith and building their emotional strength during a time of crisis. This book explains common reactions parents can expect from children of all ages, and offers adults the spiritual tools they need to help children cope with a significant loss.
The emotional, spiritual, social, and financial effects of the end of a marriage ripple throughout an extended family, and can weigh heavy on a parent's heart. With spiritual guidance and emotional advice, this volume helps the reader heal and rebuild, offering insight into handling a divorce, when it affects one of your children and yourself.
Centering on five particular situations of suffering--loss, illness, violence, fear, and failure--this book suggests ways in which a pastor can preach to parishioners who are experiencing trauma. Three sample sermons illustrate how to preach on God's gracious activity, while avoiding "psychologizing the text" and reducing the gospel to cheap ......
Thoroughly conversant with current developments, Barbour offers astute analyses of the shape and importance of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neuroscience, information theory and artificial intelligence.
Does New Testament theology rightly deal with the documents of the New Testament or with something outside the text, such as the unfolding of early Christian religion, the events of salvation history, the historical Jesus in particular, or an understanding of human existence? Is New Testament theology a strictly historical project, a dialectical ......
In Israel's Imagination and Memory, Second Edition
In this completely revised edition, Brueggemann examines four different sets of David narratives, each reflecting a particular social context, social hope and community. Thus these stories offer a distinctly different mode of truth concerning this pivotal biblical figure.
