Pastoral Models Research Articles

Interdisciplinarity in Pastoral Theology. An Example of Socio-Theological Research

The purpose of the article is to analyze the idea of interdisciplinary research involving pastoral theology and sociology. This is one of the methodological proposals for research projects carried out under pastoral theology. Interdisciplinarity is understood as combining research methods for the cooperation of scientists from both disciplines in the process of planning, implementing and interpreting the results of empirical research. It is inspired by a problem identified in pastoral theology that requires exploration. The presentation consists of three parts. The first is devoted to the location of empirical research within pastoral theology. The second concerns the assumptions and significance of interdisciplinary research involving pastoral theologians and sociologists. In the final part, the areas of interdisciplinary cooperation among the research teams are pointed out. The potential of qualitative research as a space for cooperation among representatives of both sciences and as an important source of knowledge from the viewpoint of pastoral theology is shown. The comparative and synthetic method was used. The analysis shows that interdisciplinary research in the field of pastoral theology has great potential related to the acquisition and interpretation of multi-faceted empirical data and the designation of new research fields, which will significantly enrich the theological analysis process as well as the presentation and application of pastoral models.

Encountering the Other: Postmodern and Barthian Pastoral Theologies in Dialogue

Abstract The proliferation of contextual theologies points to the perspectival character of all theological systems, underscoring the need for epistemic humility, self-reflexivity, and openness to alterity. Yet, constructive dialogue often proves difficult due to divergent sources of authority and conflicting normative values. I consider proposals by Elaine Graham and Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger, pointing out not only how their postmodern and Barthian pastoral theological models differ, but also where they may be congruent and mutually edifying. Karl Barth attracts skepticism from both “conservatives” and “liberals,” yet each may find in him an ally, resource, and bridge for engaging the other.

«ГОСПОДСТВЕННАЯ ВЛАСТЬ» VS ДУШЕПОПЕЧЕНИЕ: ПРАКТИКА ИСПОВЕДИ В РУССКОЙ ДУХОВНОЙ ТРАДИЦИИ СИНОДАЛЬНОГО ПЕРИОДА

The article attempts to reconstruct various pastoral models that appeared in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church over several centuries. The author identifies several "images" of confession, which are very different, among them: the realization of "despotical" power in a "confessional" family of the sixteenth century, the fulfillment of conscription, deeply personal interaction based on mutual trust and the value of a hierarchical aspect, counseling under the guidance of a "parish elder". The state, depending on the circumstances, either embeds the pastor in itself as a necessary part of its own mechanism, or considers the priesthood as a foreign element, or completely distances itself from religious affairs. The author suggests that the “types” of confession presented in the article can be compared with the forms of pastoral self-consciousness to be found in the modern life of the church. This in turn suggests that in the Russian Church today is characterized by the search for pastoral identity, in which the priesthood plays a key role.

Urban Parks in the Twentieth Century

Abstract This paper summarises the history of urban parks, primarily in the United States and in western Europe, throughout the twentieth century and in the early twenty-first century. In terms of park design this shows a transition from early pastoral models, via form-driven Beaux-Arts and City Beautiful models, to function-driven modernist approaches to park design and, latterly, ecologically-driven approaches that treat parks as elements of urban green infrastructure. These transitions demonstrate the influence of the zeitgeist in the two-way transfer of approaches to park design between the two continents. These approaches to the design of urban parks reflect changes in the social and political purposes for which they were intended, evolving from being seen as escapes from infernal cities, then as places for active physical recreation (including the preparation of young men for war) and latterly as principal components of urban open space systems. Equally, the importance attached to these evolving purposes has been reflected in the public funds made available for their creation and maintenance, with post World War II suburbanisation leading to severe decline in the condition and facilities in parks in both continents. Latterly urban densification has prompted higher levels of private and central government funding, while local government funding has fallen as a result of priority being given to statutory services.

Izazovi i poteškoće crkvenih pokreta

U ovom radu prikazujemo neke od poteškoća suvremenih crkvenih pokreta kao što su teološki redukcionizam, elitizam, zloupotreba karizmi i sl. Kao odgovor na te pastoralne izazove njima suprotstavljamo smjernice Učiteljstva Crkve, ponajprije iz dokumenata Drugog vatikanskog koncila, a potom i iz ostalih dokumenata Crkve koji naglašavaju sudjelovanje laika u društvu i u Crkvi. Te smjernice nam mogu poslužiti kao kriteriji za evaluaciju crkvenih pokreta, ali i kao pastoralni modeli za prevladavanje tih napetosti. Prava narav crkvenih pokreta očituje se kroz odgovornost, vjernost, zajedništvo i ljubav.

Ovid and Women's Pastoral in Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory

This paper seeks to place Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory within the context of Ovidian pastoral. Unlike the pastoral models offered by Virgil or Theocritus, which have been suggested as templates for Wroth's play, Ovid's portraits of withdrawal and separation from civil society often focus on women. Ovid's pastorals also emphasize that the topics of courtship and marriage that feature so prominently in Renaissance pastoral can imply sexual anxiety and even danger for women. This paper argues that Wroth's engagement with Ovidian models of female community challenges trends in the recovery and reconstruction of her authorship by feminist scholarship.

A Cross-Cultural Case for Convergence in Pastoral Thinking and Training

This article argues for convergence of pastoral training models as a consequence of the pluralistic nature of contemporary life. It proposes a more active partnership between pastoral disciplines in an attempt to bring wholeness to pastoral service and to pastoral education in a multicultural context. Pastoral counseling, pastoral care and pastoral ministry are presented as mutually complementary and as under girded by the same pastoral theological principle of genuine encounter. Since pastoral theology is informed by personal experience, the author illustrates his points by reference to personal cross-cultural experience. This article is an adaptation of a paper delivered at a multicultural conference in Seoul, Korea in November 2008.

Modernity, tradition and the demystification of cattle in Lesotho

Understanding the social significance of cattle for African pastoralists has been a concern of anthropologists at least since the publication of Herskovits' classic work (1926). Pastoral models commonly depict how cattle are used in socially prescribed ways that enforce both social hierarchies and solidarity. This sort of approach emphasises the value and use of livestock mostly with reference to bounded cultural systems. Although such culturally relativistic portrayals offer valuable insights into traditions and customs that continue to influence the economic behaviour of African pastoralists, such models ignore many of the constraints and opportunities that capitalist modernisation imposes on the traditional roles of cattle. The constraints result in contradictions about ideal behaviors due to the conflicts that they establish with long-standing, institutionalised spheres for action, while the opportunities open up new arenas for innovation and action.

Godskonsepte tydens pastorale gesprekvoering

Concepts of god in pastoral counselling There are indications that people's concepts of God are not adequately considered in existing models for pastoral counselling. These refer to differences among people's concepts of God as result of their stages of life, personal constructs, and the restructering of inappropriate concepts of God. Research in this regard comprises an evaluation of relevant literature and an empirical investigation. In the literature study a theological anthropology is critically analised, a number of pastoral models evaluated, a theological basic theory formulated and a theory in practice compiled. Evaluation of the empirical research reveals important differences in concepts of God among three groups of individuals in different stages of the adult life cycle, as well as some influence of the individual's personal construct system. These observations result in the postulation of a supplementary model for pastoral counselling. (Acta Theologica: 2002 22(2): 179-197)

Refleksie op twee pastorale modelle, Deel 2: Die pastor as luisteraar - die storiemodel

Reflection on two pastoral models, Part 2: The pastor as listener - the narrative model. This study focuses on pastoral interaction with women. Pastoral care and counselling with women takes place within hierarchical societal and church structures. In such societies those higher up in the hierarchy exercise power over others. The male perspective has been the dominant one. This article is a critical description and evaluation of Julian Miiller's narrative model for pastoral counselling. The premise of this model is that identity and story are related. This forms part of what is known in a broader context as the hermeneutics of conversation. In pastoral interaction the life stories of people are associated or disassociated with stories in the Bible. The article pleads for symmetrical interaction in pastoral counselling. This means that women should not be sold out to patriarchal narratives in the Bible that devalue them. Contra-narratives in the Bible according to which women have equal access to God could play an important role in pastoral interaction.

Pastoral Care and Models of Aging

Summary Four models of understanding aging persons and of pastoral care of the elderly are proposed: The symmetrical model, a loss/compensation model, an epigenetic model, and a historical/eschatological model. Each is described briefly with implications for pastoral and congregational care of older persons.

Book Review: Annotated Bibliography for Christian Social Ministries: II. Historical Theological: Playing in the Gospel: Spiritual and Pastoral Models

Book Review: Annotated Bibliography for Christian Social Ministries: II. Historical Theological: Playing in the Gospel: Spiritual and Pastoral Models

Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery by Robert Ornstein

Reviews91 this reason other works than Shakespeare's at the time simply omitted the wife in vignettes of the perfect family. Francis Bacon in his New Atlantis (1627) makes the mother invisible; when her function is alluded to, she is shown as hidden behind a screen while the father and children reign over the state. Thus the father's claim to obedience is emphasized by simply omitting the wife. Thus also birth is absorbed by the male who usurps human fecundity as his. The return of daughters to the kings in the last plays gifts them with the values that females carry, but in a nubile, procreative, yet conciliatory and obliging form, unlike the kinds of forces an adult woman (wife) might introduce. Williamson further shows how Shakespeare reverts to pastoral models with providential natural settings in which to mythologize power structures such as the father in charge of the family. James' emphasis on the king's two bodies underlies this pattern too. The sovereign body is asexual and reproduces asexually like the Phoenix. Thus Pericles first (before the mother) finds Marina on stage as does Leontes his daughter. Williamson explicates many other patterns too; I only touch above on the ones most fascinating to me. This is a critical and academic book that deserves lay reading. Shakespeare is universal to the education of the young in Western culture and is often taught as the ultimate portrayal of the universal human condition. The power of his language and certain tragic/cosmic themes seem to confirm this premise. But Shakespeare was as culture-bound as anyone else, and Williamson's book discloses the often ugly patriarchal substructure to plots and genre choice. Williamson's book is so thoroughly grounded in the history and sociology of Shakespeare 's time and current psychoanalytical theory that her theories are both far-reaching, substantial, and in my opinion almost wholly accurate. I think her book will become definitive, a classic in the criticism on Shakespeare's last plays. The book hurts. It may be ahead of its time. For those of us who have reached middle age with a comfortable view of Shakespeare's last plays as reflecting the aged bard's love of the natural cycles in the cosmos, Williamson's book is jolting but convincing. It renders dark truths. STEPHANIE DEMETRAKOPOULOS Western Michigan University Robert Ornstein. Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1986. Pp. 265. $34.50. I think this book's virtues are, on the other side, its limitations, though the latter are surely relative to the biases of the beholder. Allow, then, this beholder to put forth his biases: a metadramatic scholar, increasingly given to performance criticism, I also work as a director for the stage. Here, in seventeen chapters, fifteen of them devoted to as many of Shakespeare's comedies (with The Merry Wives of Windsor excluded), Ornstein in a highly rational prose style, always judicious, sometimes elegant, keeps his eye mostly on the texts of the plays. Concerned with the form of the comedies, which he defines as essentially closed and there- 92Comparative Drama by offering the reader an "emotional and aesthetic satisfaction" (p. 248), he talks about the characters and their dramatic worlds in general psychological terms, far short of those more psychoanalytic. There is little room here for what the actor would call the character's "sub-text." There are brief references to actual performances, some thoughts on the characters as they might appear on the stage (usually signaled by phrases such as "flesh and blood"), and illuminating comparisons with Shakespeare 's contemporaries: for example, LyIy would have ended Love's Labor's Lost with a noble denunciation of desire. Yet, for the most part, Ornstein brings his good sense to what he thinks we can say about the play as deduced from its language, and therefore, as he observes in a fine concluding chapter, in a way consistent both with Shakespeare's intentions and, equally, with the "congruity" of Shakespeare criticism over the centuries. The latter, while revealing "often radical . . . disagreements about a handful of characters," also "testifies to the essential clarity and wholeness of Shakespeare's...

La pratique dans le cadre des modèles pastoraux

In the preceeding article Leo Spruit outlined three pastoral models. In this article some results are presented of four research- projects in catholic parishes. The three pastoral models are the frame of reference. These projects investigated the three initial sacraments (baptism, first communion, confirmation) and the motivation of catholic parents who have their children baptized.

Pastoral Care and Models of Training in Counseling

Pastoral Care and Models of Training in Counseling