Reckoning With Aggression

Author : Kathleen J. Greider
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256685
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reckoning with Aggression written by Kathleen J. Greider and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aggression is ambiguous in our society, according to Kathleen Greider. While giving us strength to fight the world's social ills or to create vital and powerful lives, aggression can also lead to rage and violence. Thus, society has often viewed aggression as evil or sinful. Greider wants Christians to repair their view of aggression and realize that aggression is what can spur them to make the world better. In exploring aggression from feminist, pastoral, and theological perspectives, Greider examines the relationships between violence and vitality, passion and aggression, and finds that Christians can be strong without being destructive.

Author : Andrew D. Lester
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611642175
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angry Christian written by Andrew D. Lester and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, respected scholar Andrew Lester discusses and incorporates the newest behavioral research models, contemporary biblical and theological scholarship, constructivist philosophy, and narrative theory into a comprehensive pastoral theology of anger. In revisiting through the lens of theological anthropology the very subject that brought him to the forefront of scholarship in pastoral care, Lester presents engaging new material and innovative new methods of interventions for dealing with this often-confusing human emotion.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004259481
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Faith and Violence 2 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 10 and 11 of Studies in Reformed Theology consist of the texts written for the fifth international conference of the International Reformed Theological Institute (IRTI), which was dedicated to the theme, 'Christian Faith and Violence'. Specific theological questions were at the core of the discussions, e.g. what does violence imply for the doctrine of God? How to deal with biblical stories and commands that often contain an overwhelmingly violent character? What about applying christian ethics in situations of violence that we are exposed to? What is our calling in situations of oppression and a longing for liberation and justice?

Author : Zachary Moon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498554601
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors between Worlds written by Zachary Moon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of moral injury emerged in the past decade as a way to understand how traumatic levels of moral emotions generate moral anguish experienced by some military service members. Interdisciplinary research on moral injury has included clinical psychologists (Litz et al., 2009; Drescher et al., 2011), theologians (Brock & Lettini, 2012; Graham, 2017), ethicists (Kinghorn, 2012), and philosophers (Sherman, 2015). This project articulates a new key concept—moral orienting systems— a dynamic matrix of meaningful values, beliefs, behaviors, and relationships learned and changed over time and through formative experiences and relationships such as family of origin, religious and other significant communities, mentors, and teachers. Military recruit training reengineers pre-existing moral orienting systems and indoctrinates a military moral orienting system designed to support functioning within the military context and the demands of the high-stress environment of combat, including immediate responses to perceived threat. This military moral orienting system includes new values and beliefs, new behaviors, and new meaningful relationships. Recognizing the profound impact of military recruit training, this project challenges dominant notions of post-deployment reentry and reintegration, and formulates a new paradigm for first, understanding the generative circumstances of ongoing moral stress that include moral emotions like guilt, shame, disgust, and contempt, and, second, for responding to such human suffering through compassionate care and comprehensive restorative support. This project calls for more effective participation of religious communities in the reentry and reintegration process and for a military-wide post-deployment reentry program comparable to the encompassing physio-psycho-spiritual-social transformative intensity experienced in recruit-training boot camp.

Author : Pamela Cooper-White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086685
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Braided Selves written by Pamela Cooper-White and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society? And how can an appreciation of our multiplicity help liberate the voices of those who live at the margins, both of society and within our own complex selves? Braided Selves explores these questions from the perspectives of postmodern pastoral psychology and Trinitarian theology, with implications for the practice of spiritual care, counseling, and psychotherapy. This volume gathers ten years of essays on this theme by preeminent pastoral theologian Pamela Cooper-White, whose writings bring into dialogue postmodern, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory and constructive theology.

Author : Ken J. Walden
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610977858
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges Faced by Iraq War Reservists and Their Families written by Ken J. Walden and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families. This book takes you through the war's critical stages of pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment. Reservists' families, usually living far from military bases with professional staffing, are often among the most affected wounded of the Iraq War. Injured reservists often return home to discover that civilian medical resources are insufficient and civic organizations unequipped to help manage the range of combat-related wounds and psychiatric trauma, especially post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The lack of needed services causes alienation between reservists and their families in relation to the civilian communities in which they live. Using a practical theological method, this book analyzes the various impacts of the Iraq War and recommends a soul care approach for chaplains and pastors to use in support of reservists and their families suffering from their experiences of the Iraq War, and to guide any persons interested in participating in such support.

Author : Sunday Bobai Agang
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498235662
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Evil Strikes written by Sunday Bobai Agang and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human hostility is not the narrative of a selected few. Since the fall of the grandparents of the human family, Adam and Eve, all humans have continued to participate in the reality of evil. Accordingly, the question is no longer whether evil will strike, but rather, when evil strikes, how should humans, particularly Christians, respond to it? This book offers a relevant and effective theology and ethics for addressing the issue of Christian response to violence in Nigeria and beyond. It situates the whole gamut of the reign of human hostility in its various manifestations: self-interest and greed for power, deception and social injustices, governmental official corruption, terrorism and so on. It encourages humans to take seriously both the fact of God creating humans good and the fall serving as the gateway of evil into the human race. It recognizes the complexity of human problems. Yet it offers possibility for just peacemaking. In spite of the horrific violence across the globe, humans are still able to do tremendous good. Thus the book recognizes the paradox of humanity: humans are capable of doing tremendous good and equally capable of doing tremendous evil.

Author : Jaco J. Hamman
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
ISBN 13 : 0829820868
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Pastor: written by Jaco J. Hamman and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated edition of a best-selling leadership and ministry guide! Whether you're a pastor or church leader, says Hamman, you're called to do the following for yourself: develop a deeper sense of inner security; nurture your imagination; embrace your dark side; become aware of your emotions; see others as they really are; and engage in life with a sense of playfulness. Hamman equips you to do all of this and more. Get ready for a transformation in your personal ministry and in your relationship with God—and become the best pastor you can be!

Author : Gabriele Mayer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825861452
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Holocaust Religious Education for German Women written by Gabriele Mayer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After beginning with the problem of the inability of German postwar generations to relate to the Holocaust, focuses on ways German Christian women can learn to acknowledge German women's share of responsibility for Nazi crimes against the Jews, i.e. women's role as part of the perpetrator nation. Explores ways German women have been encouraged to try to integrate knowledge of this past into their identity formation and internalize post-Holocaust theology into their own views and lives. Notes ways that Holocaust studies and women's studies can combine to move German Christian women from complacency and individualism to involvement in "tikkun olam" that includes existential encounters with members of the victim nation.

Author : Marlene Mayra Ferreras
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793645477
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insurrectionist Wisdoms written by Marlene Mayra Ferreras and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms: Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology offers an analysis of the situation of working-class Maya mexicanas living in Yucatán, México, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation. Relying on in-depth, firsthand interviews, Marlene M. Ferreras brings to light the exploitation of women of color by large, multimillion-dollar corporations and delves into the ways these women can, and do, fight back. Drawing on a decolonial approach to pastoral theology and feminism, Ferreras proposes Lxs Hijxs de Maíz as an image for pastoral care and counseling.