Ritual and Pastoral Care

by Don S. Browning, Elaine Ramshaw

Overview

Pastoral counseling can be imbued with a sense of community and of the transcendent; there is no surer way for this to happen than through a vital and self-conscious connection with the worship life of the community. Ritual can resonate to human need, and to this end there is much the ritualist can learn from the psychological insights into human development and personality familiar to those in the field of pastoral care. Drawing on a range of practical concerns and issues in worship life and pastoral care, Elaine Ramshaw shows how ritual can communicate care, and be shaped by care for the individual, society, and the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800617387
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/01/1987
Series:	Theology and Pastoral Care
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor of Religion and Psychological Studies at The Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Elaine Ramshaw is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at Methodist Theological School, Delaware, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Foreword

Introduction

1. Ritual and Care for the Community

2. Ritual and Care for the Individual

3. Ritual and Care for the World

Notes