Abstract
ABSTRACT The article raises the question of how religious beliefs influence the process of pastoral counseling. A pastoral counselor may be articulating one's own beliefs with a client by the choices one makes for various therapeutic interventions, because counseling theories are value based anthropologies. The author challenges the notion that therapeutic neutrality is really neutral and suggests that pastoral counselors who attempt neutrality may be compromising the “pastoral” aspects of the counseling. The article concludes with the suggestion of several biblical polarities which impact both the counseling process and the pastoral counselor with possibilities and ambiguities.
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