Hospital Preaching As Informed by Bedside Listening

Cajetan N. Ihewulezi

doi:10.5771/9780761852933

Summary

Hospital Preaching as Informed by Bedside Listening states the great need to sit down face to face and attentively listen to stories, experiences, and feelings of patients. These bedside encounters with patients can well inform the preacher (chaplain or pastoral minister) and can result in more effective liturgical preaching in hospitals, hospice, prison, and nursing home settings. This book aims to improve pastoral care ministry of the sick. This pastoral approach provides a homiletical guide for preachers, pastors, and chaplains involved in hospital, hospice, or nursing home ministries. It also helps pastoral ministers to develop better listening skills for the stories and experiences of the sick, as well as the ability to use these stories and experiences in the proclamation of the gospel. Such intentional bedside listening and the preaching that results from listening are important for addressing the problems of the sick and can enhance emotional, spiritual, and physical healing.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5292-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5293-3
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 92
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
Chapter One. Hospital Bedside Listening as True Hospitality to the Sick No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter Two. Interpersonal Conversation No access Pages 9 - 27
Chapter Three. Pastoral Conversations with Hospital Patients No access Pages 28 - 41
Chapter Four. From Patient’s Story to Homily No access Pages 42 - 59
Chapter Five. The Preaching Evaluation No access Pages 60 - 66
Homilies No access Pages 67 - 78
Conclusion No access Pages 79 - 82
Bibliography No access Pages 83 - 86
Index No access Pages 87 - 90
About the Author No access Pages 91 - 92