Performing Pastoral Care

Music as a Framework for Exploring Pastoral Care

AvGregory Clifton-Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music. Using musical analogies, the author provides a new way of understanding and practising pastoral care, grounded in practical theology. Challenging overemphasis on mission, he shows that pastoral care remains essential to the life of the church, especially when engaging with extreme situations such as dying, suffering or war, and considers the role of pastoral carers in the specific pastoral encounter and in the life of the church in general.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-01
Mått:154 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt:248 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Religion and Theology
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Medarbetare:June Boyce-Tillman
ISBN:9781785920363

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

The Revd Dr Gregory Clifton-Smith is Close Vicar and Honorary Canon at Winchester Cathedral. Having initially trained as a musician, Gregory worked in parish ministry for eight years before moving into healthcare chaplaincy, working as Assistant Chaplain at The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and Senior Chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital and the Earl Mountbatten Hospice in Newport on the Isle of Wight.

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A haunting book. Clifton-Smith tenderly unsettles the church's modernist notions of mission with his musical and pastoral explorations of life in all its rawness. His use of musical form as a template for chaplaincy is lodged in my soul. I look forward to many variations and performances of this rich theme as his work reaches a wide, and appreciative, audience.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Part I. The tradition and practice of pastoral care (of prisons and healthcare). 1. Listening to the voice of historical experience - Reflection upon received tradition: Surviving the darkness of imprisonment. 2. Listening to the voice of clinical experience - Reflection upon contemporary experience: Surviving the darkness of hospitalisation. Part II. The tradition and practice of classical music (of war and peace) an interdisciplinary dialogue. 3. Listening to the voice of historical experience - Reflection upon received tradition: Classical music born out of war and social fragmentation. 4. Listening to the voice of pastoral experience (1) - Reflection upon contemporary experience: Classical music as a means of discerning sameness and difference. 5. Listening to the voice of pastoral experience (2) - Reflection upon participation and interpretation: Classical music as a vehicle for theoretical and practical transformation. Part III. The tradition and practice of pastoral care (of melody and harmony) - theoretical and practical transformation. 6. Reclaiming and Proclaiming Pastoral Care afresh - Surviving the danger of obliteration: Singing the praises of pastoral care in a mission focused environment. Conclusion: Pastoral Care as "Mission Praise".