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Helping the Good Shepherd
Susan E. Myers-Shirk
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Description for Helping the Good Shepherd
For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field. Series: Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HRAX; HRCX4; HRLM5; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Myers-Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the ... Read more
This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Myers-Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890475
SKU
V9780801890475
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About Susan E. Myers-Shirk
Susan E. Myers-Shirk is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University.
Reviews for Helping the Good Shepherd
Myers-Shirk has provided us with a clear, rather thorough and accurate history of the pastoral care and counseling movement during the period that she treats.
James N. Lapsley Journal of Pastoral Theology 2009 Raises important and still relevant questions about the relationship of psychology, culture, and pastoral practice.
A.W. Klink Religious Studies Review 2010 Through lucid descriptions and ... Read more
James N. Lapsley Journal of Pastoral Theology 2009 Raises important and still relevant questions about the relationship of psychology, culture, and pastoral practice.
A.W. Klink Religious Studies Review 2010 Through lucid descriptions and ... Read more