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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fine Introduction,
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This review is from: Introduction To Pastoral Care (Paperback)
Charles Gerkin does an excellent job of surveying the history of pastoral care and making the field of pastoral care relevant in the present context of the parish. This is an exellent text for both the classroom and the parish, because it does address these relevant themes.
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Full of information and jargon,
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This review is from: Introduction To Pastoral Care (Paperback)
Here's an informative book from a man with a lot of theoretical and practical experience. It also reads like any corporate rhetoric from the 1990's: full of buzzwords like "schema" and "paradigmatic". If you can deal with the jargon, you can learn quite a bit.
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Not bad, but not what I expected,
By BPRJam - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Introduction To Pastoral Care (Paperback)
I expected a book that would introduce me to the nuances and "how-to" of pastoral care. However, this book is more about the socio-historical context in which modern pastoral care emerged.Like some others have mentioned, it is full of jargon, and, in my opinion, seems to be written as a magnum opus of the author. As such, it is very dense and seems to be an exercise in flexing the intellectual muscles of its author. Don't get this book if you are looking to understand how to do pastoral care (I would recommed "Strategic Pastoral Counseling" for that). DO get this book if you are looking for how the role and means of pastoral care have evolved over time. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent place to start,
By PH Bible Student - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction To Pastoral Care (Paperback)
If you are interested in learning more about what "Pastoral Care" is; how it has been practiced in the past; and how it might adapt itself to the challenges of our own time, this book is the place to begin your study. I appreciated the historical overview as well as the insightful theological rationale presented by the author. I would have given the book five stars except that in several instances the author lapses into barely muffled episodes of conservative-bashing (e.g., he criticizes the so-called "religious right" without ever calling into question the equally misguided "religious left").
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Everything old is new again,
By Katherine F. Long - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Introduction To Pastoral Care (Paperback)
I came upon this book as a doctoral student -- after extensive, intensive experiences over years doing pastoral care in clinical settings. Charles Gerkin has written much about pastoral care, and in this late volume, as a professor emeritus, it is as though "all his wanderings" have brought him to where he started out, to a book that sees clearly the basics of pastoral connection and a theology that undergirds them.
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