Renewing Pastoral Practice

Trinitarian Perspectives on Pastoral Care and Counselling

By: Neil Pembroke

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Hardcover | 13 September 2006

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This is the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between the doctrine of the Trinity and pastoral care and counselling. Neil Pembroke contends that an in-depth reflection on the relational dynamics in the Godhead has the capacity to radically renew pastoral practice. Pembroke applies the notion of relational space to care in a parish setting. The life of the triune God is defined by both closeness and open space. The divine persons indwell each other in love, but they also provide space for the expression of particularity. This principle of closeness-with-space is applied in three different pastoral contexts, namely, community life, spiritual friendship, and pastoral conversations. The specialized ministry of pastoral counselling is the focus in the second half of the book. Informing the various explorations is the principle of participation through love: the divine persons participate in each other's existence through loving self-communication. Pembroke shows how this trinitarian virtue is at the centre of three key counselling dynamics: the counselling alliance, empathy, and mirroring.

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'Standing between being caught up in the vision of God and being aware of human dynamics is one of the most important places to be, and no reader can fail to be stimulated by these reflections from that meeting place.' Crucible 'Neil Pembroke has courageously done what many of us in the field of pastoral theology have not dared and that is to seriously engage with that most elusive of doctrines, the Trinity, and its implications for the theory and practice of the ministry of care. Moreover, he has succeeded in doing this in a most creative and grounded way, informed by his and others' reflective pastoral practice. Pembroke's undoubted flair for developing creative descriptions of the concepts at the heart of his Trinitarian pastoral theology enables him to fulfil his book's main aim. This was not just to show that the doctrine of the Trinity has relevance for pastoral care and counselling, but to reveal how engagement with Trinitarian theology 'has the capacity to renew our vision of the ministry of care.'' Journal of Practical Theology

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Introduction
Setting the Scene: The renewal of the doctrine of the Trinity: relationality and triune 'marks'
Trinity and the General Ministry of Care: Managing Relational Space: Pastoral care as polyphony
Hospitality in pastoral ministry
Community and spiritual friendship
Trinity and Pastoral Counselling: Participation in Love: Building the counselling alliance
Empathy, communion, and identity
Mirroring as an act of love
Concluding with Theodicy: The Trinity and suffering
Bibliography
Index
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