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Caring for–Caring about: Negotiations of Values in Pastoral Care

open access: yesReligions
The term “care” in pastoral care means caring for others. Yet those who care for others in pastoral conversations can also be defined existentially as people who care about the world, that is, people who hold values. This article explores how caring for and caring about commence in pastoral practice, with special attention paid to conflicts of values ...
Mikkel Gabriel Christoffersen   +2 more
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The Evolution of Pastoral Care Ministry through the Ages [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2021
People are commanded by Jesus to love one another as he loved us (John 13:34). We are called to be conduits of God’s grace to others in our community. Christ’s love for us should motivate us to love others in response.
Xolisa Jibiliza
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The pastoral presence in absence: Challenges and opportunities of pastoral care in the context of the global Coronavirus pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2022
The role of the pastor is shepherding. With his/her presence the pastor becomes a companion and leader of the Christian church. The advent of the coronavirus has provided a myriad of challenges for pastoral care and presence.
Dr Rabson Hove
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Editors’ Comment: Pastoral Care as Diaconia – Diaconia as Pastoral Care

open access: yesDiaconia, 2023
Christoffersen, Mikkel Gabriel   +2 more
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Vulnerance of Pastoral Care

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Disproving assumptions to the contrary, this article clearly shows how and why adults can become victims of abuse in church contexts. It does this by focusing on the pastoral care context and the interdependent potential risk factors lying within.
Ute Leimgruber
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Pastoral care in communities under transition: Interplay between care and culture

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2018
This article contributes to pastoral care within communities under transition. It seeks to contribute to the corpus of literature that relates pastoral care with culture and, particularly, multicultural contexts.
John S. Klaasen
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Reflection on pastoral care in Africa: Towards discerning emerging pragmatic pastoral ministerial responses

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2016
Pastoral care takes different forms in responding to people’s needs in their context. Accordingly, over the centuries it has evolved in response to emerging needs. Historical developments in pastoral care are well-documented.
Vhumani Magezi
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Doing public pastoral care through church-driven development in Africa: Reflection on church and community mobilisation process approach in Lesotho

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
African communities face various challenges that require different sectors’ interventions to be effectively addressed. Churches as key community structures in Africa along with people experience these life challenges.
Vhumani Magezi
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The Church in the Face of the Challenges of the Post-Pandemic Era

open access: yesSeminare, 2022
The purpose of the research is to analyze the situation of the Church and pastoral care in the post-pandemic reality. The experience of the 2020-2022 period shows that there has been a strengthening of the faith attitudes of Catholics actively ...
Władysław Wyszowadzki
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Pendampingan Pastoral Holistik: Sebuah Usulan Konseptual Pembinaan Warga Gereja

open access: yesEvangelikal: Jurnal Teologi Injili dan Pembinaan Warga Jemaat, 2017
Fibry Jati Nugroho, Pastoral Assistance Holistic: A Proposed Conceptual Development Residents Church. A strong church is formed of a strong congregation.
Fibry Jati Nugroho
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