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African-American Pastoral Care (edition 1991)

by Edward P. Wimberly

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Respond to God's unfolding drama to bring healing and reconciliation.In this major revision of his classic book, Dr. Edward Wimberly updates his narrative methodology by examining current issues in African American pastoral care and counseling. "In this new edition, Ed Wimberly reconfigures what comprehensive care means for the African American struggle for dignity and proposes pastoral care approaches to the crisis of disconnection. Using his own narrative, Wimberly courageously describes how pastors and churches can claim a new narrative method for reestablishing the African American village. His paradigm for African American pastoral theology is inspiring."--Homer U. Ashby Jr., W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Professor of Pastoral Care, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois"Wimberly's revision of his classic work African American Pastoral Care invites readers to reconsider narrative theology as a primary framework for pastoral care in the African American community and congregation. He adds perspectives on human sexuality and other current day issues to this new volume. First-time readers will find themselves taken by Wimberly's own use of narrative as his conceptual and practical wisdom emerges throughout the book."--Teresa E. Snorton, Executive Director,  Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., Decatur, Georgia… (more)
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Title:African-American Pastoral Care
Authors:Edward P. Wimberly
Info:Abingdon Press (1991), Paperback, 111 pages
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The African American pastors have the added challenges of "liberation" along with the burdens of healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling the members of the community. In revising his previously published material (1979, 1991), the academically formidable author notes that the "indigenous storytelling model assumed that the connected relational village existed and that the faith worldview was undergirded by a soul theology with many interrelated and interconnecting themes." That village has since collapsed. [viii]

I love the way he quotes the author of Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." [ix]

Wimberly empowers and restores the storyteller. While both the need and the tradition are pronounced in the black churches, all communities of faith can benefit for reflection and recounting the unfolding story. ( )
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Respond to God's unfolding drama to bring healing and reconciliation.In this major revision of his classic book, Dr. Edward Wimberly updates his narrative methodology by examining current issues in African American pastoral care and counseling. "In this new edition, Ed Wimberly reconfigures what comprehensive care means for the African American struggle for dignity and proposes pastoral care approaches to the crisis of disconnection. Using his own narrative, Wimberly courageously describes how pastors and churches can claim a new narrative method for reestablishing the African American village. His paradigm for African American pastoral theology is inspiring."--Homer U. Ashby Jr., W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Professor of Pastoral Care, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois"Wimberly's revision of his classic work African American Pastoral Care invites readers to reconsider narrative theology as a primary framework for pastoral care in the African American community and congregation. He adds perspectives on human sexuality and other current day issues to this new volume. First-time readers will find themselves taken by Wimberly's own use of narrative as his conceptual and practical wisdom emerges throughout the book."--Teresa E. Snorton, Executive Director,  Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., Decatur, Georgia

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