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Beyond Church Walls : Cultivating a Culture of Care /

Pastoral care has been traditionally understood as pastoral acts administered to individuals or small groups by an ordained or lay religious practitioner. As congregations in the twenty-first century begin to reclaim the missional nature of church, this view must be broadened to include care and con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rouse, Richard W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Jessicah Krey Duckworth
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reclaiming God's vision for community care
  • 2. From individualism to community : reframing pastoral care
  • 3. Maneuvering the challenges of change
  • 4. Contexts of care
  • 5. Creating care communities
  • 6. A congregational approach to community organizing
  • 7. When prayer is not enough : the power of ritual to heal
  • 8. Developing a vision and strategy for a discipleship congregation.