The Integrity of the Body of Christ: Boundary Keeping as Shared Responsibility
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The Integrity of the Body of Christ: Boundary Keeping as Shared Responsibility
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| ISBN-13: | 9781498235372 |
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| Publisher: | Cascade Books |
| Publication date: | 05/23/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 236 |
| File size: | 927 KB |
About the Author
Arden Mahlberg is a practicing psychologist whose career has focused on the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality with the purpose of helping increase people's capacity for doing good in the world. With a substantial part of his counseling and consulting practice being with clergy, he has written extensively for clergy wellness publications. He has done research and writing questioning the bipolar assumption in Jungian personality theory and received a Terrytown Prize for his test of a new theory of archetypes.
Arden Mahlberg is a psychologist whose career has focused on the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality with the purpose of helping increase people's capacity for doing good in the world. With a substantial part of his counseling and consulting practice being with clergy, he has written extensively for clergy wellness publications. He has done research and writing questioning the bipolar assumption in Jungian personality theory and received a Terrytown Prize for his test of a new theory of archetypes.
Craig L. Nessan is William D. Streng Professor for the Education and Renewal of the Church and professor of contextual theology and ethics at Wartburg Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Wilhelm Loehe and North America (2020).
Michael L. Cooper-White is president emeritus of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary (now part of United Lutheran Seminary), where his seventeen-year tenure concluded by leading its consolidation with a former rival school. He also served as interim president of Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Cooper-White, who took up journalism in retirement, is author or coauthor of four other books and hundreds of articles for journals, magazines, and The Gettysburg Times.
Pamela Cooper-White is a scholar, teacher, and Episcopal priest whose work integrates pastoral theology with relational psychoanalysis. She teaches as the Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, and is also Co-Director of the Atlanta Theological Association's ThD program in Pastoral Counseling. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship as the 2013-14 Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria, where she conducted research on early psychoanalysis and religion at the Sigmund Freud Museum, and taught a seminar on Freud, Psychoanalysis and Religion at the University of Vienna. She holds two PhDs: from Harvard University (in historical musicology), and from the Institute for Clinical Social Work, Chicago (a psychoanalytic clinical and research degree). Cooper-White is the author of Braided Selves: Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons (Cascade Books, 2011), Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy and Theology in Relational Perspective (2007), Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (2004), The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Women and the Church's Response (1995; 2nd revised edition 2012), and Schoenberg and the God Idea: The Opera 'Moses und Aron' (1985). She has published numerous articles and anthology chapters, and has lectured frequently across the U.S., as well as in Vienna, Budapest, Bern, and Prague. Cooper-White is a clinical Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois, and a Board Certified Counselor, National Board for Certified Counselors. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pastoral Theology.
Table of Contents
Foreword Pamela Cooper-White Michael Cooper-White vii
Introduction 1
Part 1 Defining and Protecting Integrity through Boundaries
1 The Necessity of Boundaries for Creating and Sustaining Identity and Effective Mission 11
2 Entrustment 28
3 Role Integrity 45
Part 2 Integrity of Community
4 Integrity in Worship 65
5 Bearing Witness: Integrity in Interaction and Communication 77
6 Sabbath Shalom: A Day in the Kingdom 98
Part 3 Integrity of Persons
7 The Pastor as Person 123
8 Boundaries as Shared Responsibility by Church Members 141
9 Being Body of Christ with Integrity: Toward Best Practices in Boundary Keeping 163
Guide for Reflection and Discussion 197
Bibliography 207
Index of Names 215
Index of Subjects 217
What People are Saying About This
"A meticulously crafted volume that addresses the complexities and subtleties of 'boundaries' for the people of God engaged in ministry. The theological perspective of the authors informs their analysis and proposed solutions to ensure that the integrity of the body of Christ remains intact as experienced in the daily interactions of the people of God."
—Robert H. Albers, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Pastoral Theology (retired), United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
"Nessan and Mahlberg go after an unglamorous topic—boundary keeping—and refashion it to attract the attention of any serious Christian. Dispelling the notion that boundaries are mostly about constraint, these two scholars take down the yellow police tape that often encircles our imagination. They open up whole new worlds for our understanding of what it means to live moral lives grounded in integrity."
—Peter W. Marty, Pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport, IA