Care of Persons, Care of Worlds: A Psychosystems Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling

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Summary: Intelligent Book, Technical at Times
Review: This is a very intelligently written book on pastoral counselling from a Christian perspective. The theological view the author holds is process theology, which arose out of Alfred North Whitehead's 'process metaphysics'. According to this theology, God is not the omnipotent father-like figure of traditional theology, but rather more like a creative force that subtly influences everything towards the good, but cannot force anything to just do good. God is therefore an intricate part of reality, enmeshed, and suffers along with us.

However, this theological view is combined with recent approaches in counselling psychology to create a really useful book for the pastor, chaplain, or just interested Christian looking to be a better helper to herself or others. The book can be technical at times, but there are also examples that are accessible if you just skip through some of the technical stuff and go back to it later. Recommended!