Spiritual care
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; translated and with an introduction by Jay C. Rochelle.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Bekennende Kirche -- Clergy.; Pastoral theology.; Clergy -- Office.; Pastoral theology -- Bekennende Kirche.; Pastoral theology -- Lutheran Church.; Lutheran Church -- Clergy.
Description: Bonhoeffer says spiritual care is a function of the congregation and that it is an aspect of the broader, more encompassing activity of proclamation. In Spiritual Care, we are confronted with the awesome truth that in speech God's presence is known and that speech is also our own; in silence God's presence is known and that silence is also our own. The text demands us to consider how the gospel message is brought to people in the midst of their personal lives, and his message and counsel use the tools given within the traditional life of the church so that such grace becomes enacted, enfleshed, and incarnate in the Christian community.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 90-92.
"Translated from the German 'Seelsorge,' Band V, Gesammelten Schriften (Munich: Chr. Kaiser Verlag, 1982)"--Verso t.p.