The indispensable guide to pastoral care
By: Sharyl B. Peterson.
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cleveland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780829817782
Subjects: Pastoral care; Pastoral theology
Description: "Peterson recognizes that as students learn more about specific areas of care - facilitating pastoral conversations, making hospital visits and planning funerals, offering bereavement care, and celebrating weddings and births - they also learn to draw connections to care and its theological foundations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-137).
Table of contents: title: What makes care "pastoral"?; title: Being in right relationship; title: The practice of presence; title: Hearing others into speech; title: Godward listening; title: Sacred words, sacred actions; title: Are any among you sick?; title: A time to weep; title: A time to dance.