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How can I help others to be strengthened during difficulties in life?
How can I cope when I'm overwhelmed with the demands of helping others
Pastors, including clergy, need to be able to provide the right kind of circumstances, teaching and care to enable people to face crisis and come through difficulties stronger as human beings and as Christians. They also need the quality of resilience to be involved in Christian ministry.
Justine Allain-Chapman's thoughtful book draws on the stories and themes of Christian theology and tradition, on contemporary research into resilience and the insights of psychology to help people make sense of the personal costs of pastoral care.
This book is an important resource for pastors, written to help them recognize the dynamics of developing their own resilience as well as enabling them to strengthen others. It is an essential guide to understanding how what is preached and taught in churches prepares people for life's difficulties.
1 The need for resilience in pastoral ministry 1
2 Developing resilience: research and themes 14
3 The desert: landscape and metaphor for developing
resilience 36
4 Desert Christians embrace adversity for growth 57
5 Rowan Williams and resilient believing 82
6 From wounded healer to resilient pastor 100
7 A pastoral theology of resilience 120
Notes 133
Further reading 137
Index 141