Varieties of Gifts (eBook)

Multiplicity and the Well-Lived Pastoral Life

Cynthia G. Lindner (Autor)

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2016
176 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-56699-743-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Varieties of Gifts illuminates the inner lives of clergy who lead with courage and creativity. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the book shows that multiple-mindedness is an essential ingredient for healthy ministry. Rather than an unattainable “quick fix,” the book profiles relatable pastors and congregations whose lives highlight the potential for multiple identities to enhance pastoral life, even in challenging times.

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If there's one thing upon which contemporary pastors and their congregations can agree, it's that the practice of ministry in our rapidly changing, increasingly diverse context is a complicated business. Varieties of Gifts highlights the stories of ministers who thrive in this environment, offering inspiration to readers-ministers, seminary students, and people who care for them-on engaging their own multiplicity to build healthy, sustainable ministry. Varieties of Gifts illuminates the inner lives of clergy who lead with courage and creativity, stamina, and soulfulness. The author mines in-depth interviews with twenty pastors in order to demonstrate that the human experience of multiple-mindedness is an essential ingredient for healthy, innovative ministry. Cynthia Lindner, herself an ordained minister, pastoral psychotherapist, and professor, illustrates how the Christian tradition bears witness to creation's complexity, and how our own multiplicity mirrors God's abundance. Through the accounts of the pastors themselves, the book illustrates how well-tended ministerial multiplicity can cultivate a rich pastoral identity, navigate congregational conflict, and embrace change in rich, life-giving ways.Rather than an unattainable "e;quick fix,"e; Varieties of Gifts profiles relatable pastors and congregations whose lives highlight the rich potential for multiple identities to enhance pastoral life, even in challenging times.

Autor

Cynthia G. Lindner is director of ministry studies and clinical faculty for preaching and pastoral care at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Rev. Lindner is also a pastoral psychotherapist at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy, where she works with clergy groups, individuals, and couples. She has served as a parish pastor and hospice chaplain.

Inhalt

Introduction Witness and Wisdom of Pastoral Narrative“That was Somebody Else”: Multiplicity and Ministry“Something was Missing”: Multiplicity and Pastoral IdentityAdaptive Change, Conflict and Transformation: Multiplicity and Ministerial PracticeThe Perils and Possibilities of Multiplicity: the Care and Feeding of Multiple-mindednessMultiplicity and the Renewal of Congregational MinistryNotesAnnotated Bibliography of Further Reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Schlagworte: Alban Books • congregational resources
• ISBN-10: 1-56699-743-7 / 1566997437
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56699-743-0 / 9781566997430