As with all bodies, congregational bodies experience challenges to their health, well-being, and ability to function as they desire. Problems in faith communities range from severe, intractable conflict to lethargy and decline, with far-ranging effects. The practice of offering pastoral care to individuals experiencing difficulties is rooted deeply in the Judeo-Christian tradition. There is, however, no explicit tradition of pastoral care for corporate congregational bodies experiencing difficulties. This dissertation draws on Bowen Family Systems Theory and its application by Edwin Friedman to congregations and leadership, in conjunction with aspects of process theology, to develop a pastoral theology of congregational care and leadership ...
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a pastoral care model to assimilate new members into...
Most pastors and clergy minister from a place of a perceived divine calling and persist through the ...
Pastors and their spouses face unique challenges because of the nature of pastoral work, and yet mos...
As with all bodies, congregational bodies experience challenges to their health, well-being, and abi...
Ministerial leaders carry an abundance of responsibility in innumerable areas while simultaneously m...
Congregational care and support of pastors in parish ministry is rarely considered. While there is l...
The dissertation addresses, through a biblical narrative model, the disharmony at Freedman Chapel Cu...
This project examines the use of pastoral care groups to help members of a congregation to overcome ...
The purpose of this project is to create congregational care teams to serve the emotional and spirit...
This study addresses the challenges related to the care giving ministry of New Lire Church located i...
DTh (Pastoral Studies), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusWhen people with belief systems i...
Ideas about how members of the ecology of clergy wellbeing might support the wellbeing of pas...
This study is concerned with the nature of pastoral care and its practice in contemporary British Me...
In this paper I describe my theology of awakening to Spirit within andbecoming an expression of Spir...
This qualitative research case study explored pastoral leadership behaviors and the involvement of l...
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a pastoral care model to assimilate new members into...
Most pastors and clergy minister from a place of a perceived divine calling and persist through the ...
Pastors and their spouses face unique challenges because of the nature of pastoral work, and yet mos...
As with all bodies, congregational bodies experience challenges to their health, well-being, and abi...
Ministerial leaders carry an abundance of responsibility in innumerable areas while simultaneously m...
Congregational care and support of pastors in parish ministry is rarely considered. While there is l...
The dissertation addresses, through a biblical narrative model, the disharmony at Freedman Chapel Cu...
This project examines the use of pastoral care groups to help members of a congregation to overcome ...
The purpose of this project is to create congregational care teams to serve the emotional and spirit...
This study addresses the challenges related to the care giving ministry of New Lire Church located i...
DTh (Pastoral Studies), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusWhen people with belief systems i...
Ideas about how members of the ecology of clergy wellbeing might support the wellbeing of pas...
This study is concerned with the nature of pastoral care and its practice in contemporary British Me...
In this paper I describe my theology of awakening to Spirit within andbecoming an expression of Spir...
This qualitative research case study explored pastoral leadership behaviors and the involvement of l...
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a pastoral care model to assimilate new members into...
Most pastors and clergy minister from a place of a perceived divine calling and persist through the ...
Pastors and their spouses face unique challenges because of the nature of pastoral work, and yet mos...