Description
Book SynopsisExplore shame''s revelatory and transformative potential within Christianity and the Church Learn to understand shame to allow for positive change in your clients and parishioners. This book explores psychological, spiritual, and theological aspects of shame and shame''s transformative potential. It will help pastoral care givers and mental health workers to identify shame issues and become agents of healing. By examining shame in the gospel accounts of the life, ministry, and death of Jesus, it shows that shame is a vital part of what defines us as human, and how shame can draw us into the mystery of our relationship with God.
From the author: This book develops the thesis that shame is a necessary and ontological part of the human condition. Shame can become pathological, undergirding and dominating the entire personality, making it impossible to feel oneself either part of the collective or an individual in one''s own right. Transformation of shame is
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Shame in the Gospel Accounts of the Life, Ministry, and Death of Jesus; Chapter 3 What Is Shame? Toward a Working Phenomenological Understanding; Chapter 4 The Revelatory Potential of Shame; Chapter 5 Defenses Against Shame; Chapter 6 Methodology in the Use of Depth Psychology in Theological Study and Ministry; Chapter 7 Toward an Understanding of Shame from Perspectives of Depth Psychology; Chapter 8 Toward a Theology of Shame; Chapter 9 Reflections on the Orientation of the Institutional Church and Its Ministers Toward the Meaning and Phenomenon of Shame; Chapter 10 Conclusion;
