Abstract
Abstract This chapter begins with a discussion of principlism, focusing on its limits, thereby providing an opening for pastoral theology to contribute to bioethics. It then discusses several definitions of pastoral theology, giving special attention to various ways theology and psychology may be related in pastoral theology. A specific vision of pastoral theology is offered (Robert Dykstra’s view of pastoral theology as aesthetic imagination) as well as a means of positioning bioethics and pastoral theology (Paul Tillich’s method of correlation, informed by art theory). The discussion focuses on the theories of pastoral theologian Donald Capps and art theorist Rudolf Arnheim. The chapter closes with a discussion of images and ethics.
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