{"title":"Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ; Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship","authors":"Sarah Barton","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1834977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1834977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"61 1","pages":"225 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83863609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JPT CMHC Special Edition – Introduction","authors":"Nicholas A. Grier","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1833468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1833468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"160 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1833468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Veteran Solidarity and Antonio Gramsci: Counterhegemony as Pastoral Theological Intervention","authors":"Joshua T. Morris","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1826099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1826099","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the current political theater of the United States, one in which the de rigueur is partisan deadlock and a refusal to ‘reach across the aisle,’ nothing brings both major political parties together like war. At the center of this theater is the heroic veteran. This reification overlooks the lived experience of veterans. For some veterans, their experience has entailed multiple combat deployments, frayed relationships, and moral injury. Veterans deserve to see creative change in the support given them. This essay in pastoral theological intervention explores one possibility. Borrowing from Antonio Gramsci, I will argue for the positionality of military chaplains to stand in as Gramscian organic intellectuals in order to accompany veterans through trauma and to move toward not only their own liberation but also an end to these, our longest, wars.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"207 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1826099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43324288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statement of Removal","authors":"R. Lamothe","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1779510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1779510","url":null,"abstract":"This article sketches out a radical pastoral theology for the Anthropocene Era by first addressing and illustrating the existential dynamics of care manifested in parent–child relationships. Here i...","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"i - i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1779510","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43926658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distinguishing Between the Pastor and the Superhero: God on Burnout and Self-care","authors":"Hartness M. Samushonga","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1748919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1748919","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The risk of burnout in pastoral ministry is more than a myth! A number of empirical studies have concluded that like other helping professionals, Christian ministers in pastoral roles are at risk of burnout. We have consequently seen an intensification of clergy burnout discourse in the last three decades. However, much of the existing literature on clergy burnout is presented through the lens of burnout psychology with little or no reference to Scripture. This article takes a practical theological approach and traces pastoral ministry associated stress and risk of burnout to Moses' experiences in Exodus18:13-27 and Numbers 11:11-17 using a burnout theoretical framework. The author illustrates that Moses was both anointed and human—and was therefore predisposed to the risk of ministry-associated stress and burnout. Drawing from Yahweh's intervention in Moses situation, the article concludes by demonstrating that Yahweh is the architect of the principle of self-care in pastoral ministry. Video Abstract Read the transcript Watch the video on Vimeo","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"4 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1748919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47231073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Face of Pastoral Theology","authors":"K. Samuel Lee, Danjuma Gibson","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1783804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1783804","url":null,"abstract":"I [K. Samuel Lee] recently had a conversation with an editor from a mainline denominational publishing house. She bemoaned the fact that there is a lack of pastoral care resources which can be used in educating local church pastors. She added that pastoral (and practical) theology as an academic discipline has become highly technical and theoretical, resulting in a big gap between academia and the church. I think it is important that we academicians heed this book editor’s critique. At the same time, she was ‘interpreting the signs of the times’ (Matthew 16:30) from her vantage point, which points to much deeper and more fundamental changes taking place in all spheres of life including theological education, the church, and global society. T. Howland Sanks wrote a decade ago about some of these changes taking place in the past half century. Sanks pointed out that (1) there have been significant changes in ‘who does theology.’ Theology is done no longer by clergy, who were exclusively men. Theology used to be done by clergy and for clergy in the church. Theology is no longer an enterprise owned by men, clergy, or the church. (2) As with ‘all things’ in life, ‘theology’ has become globalized and is not done just in Europe and North America. Robert J. Schreter speaks of ‘global theological flows,’ complexifying the discipline of theology. (3) ‘For whom is theology done’ has changed. It is no longer that theology is for the church community and clergy. Theology is now done by what Sanks calls ‘intelligent inquirers’ some but not all of whom are Christian. Some theologians use the context of the Christian tradition but others do theology ‘to contribute to the discussion of contemporary issues and to provide guidance for contemporary society.’ Theology today addresses an audience that includes the church, the academy, and society. (4) There have been changes in our cosmological understanding. Homo Sapiens no longer occupies the center of the universe with dominion over all things. We instead are finding that we occupy an infinitesimal place in the cosmos, which is leading us to reconsider the meaning and the purpose of our role and position in the cosmos. (5) There is the growing recognition that ‘theology has always been done in and from a particular context’ whether or not theologians were conscious of it. All theologies relate to or are constructed out of the local situation or location. (6) Theology is now done with ‘an increased awareness of the plurality of cultures, races, ethnicities, religions and socio-political ways of organizing ourselves.’ The attention to plurality has given rise to the emphasis of ‘the particular, local and regional’ with an increasing expectation that theologians participate in and dialogue about politics, international relations, education and religions, to name a few. Theology now commonly seeks interdisciplinary partners; theology to adequately address the complexities of a given topic, cannot be done from confinemen","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"83 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1783804","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46568556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frederick Douglass, A Psychobiography: Rethinking Subjectivity in the Western Experiment of Democracy","authors":"Nicholas A. Grier","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1765515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1765515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"155 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1765515","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48485707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pastoral and spiritual care in a digital age: the future is now","authors":"David A. Hogue","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1712870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1712870","url":null,"abstract":"The last three decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in both the neurobiological and computer/information sciences. These discoveries and innovations are challenging, sometimes radically, our long-held understandings of human nature and our future as a species. Pastoral and Spiritual Care in a Digital Age takes on several challenges emerging from advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the spread of social media as well as their impact on our physical and spiritual selves. We human beings, Bingaman argues, are approaching, or already upon, a tipping point, a singularity, in our relationship with digital worlds in an irreversible transition from homo sapiens to techno sapiens. As computer technologies achieve ever more astonishing speed on smaller and smaller devices, we are witnessing the rapid acceleration of a process which promises to alleviate human suffering, make knowledge universally accessible, and enhance human functioning beyond the limited resources of the contemporary human brain. This same movement threatens to rob us of much that makes us essentially human. With an apocalyptic urgency, Bingaman suggests that technology has replaced biology as the driving force in evolution. To make matters worse, we have only a small window of opportunity to preserve what is most distinctly human about ourselves before the direction and quality of our futures are determined by AI. At stake are our ‘attentional control, relational intelligence, and a deeper mindful and contemplative awareness’ (Bingaman 2018, x).","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"150 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1712870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48563826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christ on the Psych Ward","authors":"Mathew Frease","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1767358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1767358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"153 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1767358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41404235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}