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Re-embodying Pastoral Theology
Ritual Care for Moral Injury in Veterans
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2024
Summary
With the dominance of psychotherapeutic theories and methods in the field of pastoral theology, the typical pastoral encounter has been understood to be a private conference in which a pastor addresses a sufferer’s thoughts and emotions. What results is a kind of dualism that is contrary to a historically Christian affirmation and care for the body. The phenomenon of moral injury further problematizes this model of pastoral care in part due to a greater awareness that trauma is imprinted as much in the body as in the mind. Re-embodying Pastoral Theology uses the problem of moral injury in veterans to propose a pastoral theology that recognizes ritual as the means by which the Christian community addresses the body in pastoral care. In advancing this new approach to “ritual care,” the author draws from the fields of psychology, ritual studies, liturgical studies, and historical theology, as well as the experiences of veterans throughout history. This book endeavors to re-think the Christian approach to moral injury and re-embody the field of pastoral theology.
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Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-1710-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-1711-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Moral Injury as a Pastoral Theological Construct No access Pages 11 - 48
Ritual and the Problem of Moral Injury No access Pages 49 - 76
Contributions from Moral Injury and Ritual Care Literature for a Pastoral Theological Approach to Moral Injury No access Pages 77 - 110
Non-humanistic Ritual Care for Moral Injury No access Pages 111 - 176
Sin and Pastoral Theology No access Pages 177 - 184
