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Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in the emotional and spiritual preparation of pastoral caregivers. Stevenson-Moessner expands on her key notion of pastoral care as seen through the interconnection and interplay of love of God, love of neighbor, and love of self. Her brief book is meant to engender "confidence and caring" in the initiate, and to assuage the fear and anxiety that naturally occur when one accompanies people in life-changing pain and travail. Through skilled use of the parables of the Good Samaritan and the Good Shepherd, along with stories from her own experience, Stevenson-Moessner imparts genuine wisdom and meaningful support to those who courageously dare to offer caregiving ministry in whatever situation or through whatever method or paradigm. Her work unfolds in six chapters:

1. Introduction: The One-Room Schoolhouse 2. Pointers and Precepts: The Grammer of Care 3. The Prism of Pastoral Care: Scripture Refracted 4. Paradigms in Pastoral Care: The Community as Classroom 5. The Open Classroom: Places of Care 6. Conclusion: An Alphabet of Grace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84863 in eBooks
• Published on: 2005-08
• Format: Kindle Book
• Number of items: 1

About the Author
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Christian Formation at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), she is also a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. Along with her most recent volume, The Spirit of Adoption: At Home in God's Family (2003), she is editor of three pioneering handbooks in pastoral care of and by women: Women in Travail and Transition (1991), Through the Eyes of Women (1996), and In Her Own Time (2000), all from Fortress Press. A Primer in Pastoral Care Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling series Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner Finally, a simple, straightforward introduction to the whatwhy- how of pastoral care, for beginning pastors.