The Skilled Pastor: Counseling as the Practice of Theology
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Overview
A splendid volume detailing the specific skills necessary for sound pastoral guidance in various situations. The author integrates theological reflection with practice, while incorporating religious resources with counseling technique.
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- Introduces three key aspects of pastoral care and counseling by integrating them into a three-stage pastoral conversation model
- Presents a simple form of theological assessment that can be used by beginners
- Offers a model that links together helping skills and theological assessment to enable theological assessment to be a normal part of a pastoral interview
Part One: Presence
- Attending
- Responding
- Assessing
Part Two: Interventions
- Theological Assessment
- Proclamation
- Resources for Change
- Guidance
Charles Taylor has written a pioneering book, one that is bound to be controversial but undeniably creative and important. By focusing on the neglected topics of pastoral skill and the effects of belief systems in shaping experience, Taylor opens up significant new possibilities for theologically informed, psychologically effective pastoral care and counseling. Through its carefully constructed set of categories and techniques, The Skilled Pastor offers a challenging and important new approach to the religious care of persons.
David K. Switzer, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
A well-conceived integration of the minister's role and functioning, the traditional resources of the church and its faith, and a major contemporary approach to the counseling process. This book will be very useful, especially in the seminary classroom or other groups led by a skilled practitioner of pastoral care and counseling.
David K. Switzer, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University