Performing Pastoral Care Carla Espana whilst embracing inevitable difference

whilst embracing inevitable difference

* Self-compassion and how the action of bringing affection and kindness to oneself during intense torment can be crucial to acceptance

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and dialogical methodologies as it examines the interrelationship of individuals and groups with differing alignments toward religion

or changed the trajectory of their lives

Performing Pastoral Care Carla Espana whilst embracing inevitable differenceMaking the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music. Using musical analogies, the author provides a new way of understanding and practising pastoral care, grounded in practical theology. Challenging overemphasis on mission, he shows that pastoral care remains essential to the life of the church, especially when engaging with extreme situations such as dying, suffering or