Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context write by Angella Son. This book was released on 2021-01-04. Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides theoretical background and pastoral strategies for pastors, lay leaders, and congregation members to foster a restoration of the human dignity imputed by God and the good community God desires. It addresses issues in pastoral care and pays particular attention to Korean and Korean American contexts. Some of the specific issues addressed include wisdom for common life (Chung Yong) as a theological and pastoral task, tension between Confucianism and feminism, care of the abused and abusers in intimate violence, ageism and elderly care, racism and cultural identity of Korean youth, sexual ethics among Korean young adults, and depression and addiction among Korean American youth and young adults. All of the contributors have a strong background in clinical and/or pastoral practices in addition to theoretical expertise.
Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience
Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience write by Eunil Cho. This book was released on 2024-09-02. Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience, Eunil David Cho examines how Korean American undocumented young adults tell religious stories to cope with the violence of uncertainty and construct new meanings for themselves. Based on in-depth interviews guided by narrative inquiry, the book follows the stories of ten Korean American DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients who have found their lives in limbo. While many experience narrative foreclosure, believing “My story is over,” Cho highlights how telling religious stories enables them to imagine and create new stories for themselves not as shunned outsiders, but as beloved children of God.
Biblical and Pastoral Bridgework
Biblical and Pastoral Bridgework - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical and Pastoral Bridgework write by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins. This book was released on 2023-09-18. Biblical and Pastoral Bridgework available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether singly or jointly authored, these essays model dynamic, interactive reading of human situations and biblical texts. The exchange between texts and human situations reveals the multivalent complexities of both human situations and scriptural texts, and cautions against a simplistic use of the Bible and of pastoral theory and practices. Drawing upon both texts throughout the Bible and diverse psychological theories, the authors bridge the long-standing divide between the "classical" and "practical" disciplines in biblical studies and pastoral care. The aim of this book is to spur readers' imaginations toward critical engagement with the Bible and with one another to promote healing, connection, and justice in a world crying out for wholeness. Gems hidden in plain sight within the Bible can become powerful tools for illuminating the pains and promises of the human condition.
Evangelical Pilgrims from the East
Evangelical Pilgrims from the East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evangelical Pilgrims from the East write by Sunggu Yang. This book was released on 2016-11-18. Evangelical Pilgrims from the East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book Sunggu Yang proposes five socio-ecclesial codes as unique faith fundamentals of Korean American Christianity. Drawing from rigorous research and years of ecclesial experience, Yang names the codes as follows: the Wilderness Pilgrimage code, the Diasporic Mission Code, the Confucian Egalitarian code, the Buddhist Shamanistic code, and the Pentecostal Liberation code. These five codes, he asserts, help Korean Americans sustain their lives, culture, faith, and evangelical mission as aliens or “pilgrims” in the American “wilderness.” Yang outlines how his five proposed codes serve as liberative and prophetic mechanisms of faith through which Korean Americans can contribute to racial harmony and cultural diversity in North America. In this sense, Korean American Christianity—its theology and spirituality—works not only on behalf of Korean Americans, but also for the sake of all Americans. Yang shows how the Korean American pulpit is the locus where these five codes appear most vividly.
The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage
The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage write by Chul Woo Son. This book was released on 2014-01-24. The Motives of Self-Sacrifice in Korean American Culture, Family, and Marriage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The concept of self-sacrifice is highly important to Korean Americans. With hierarchy of age, social status, and gender-defined roles taking primacy over equality and justice, self-sacrifice becomes instrumental in maintaining family and social relationships. Unfortunately, in family relationships, sacrifice has more to do with submission and endurance than it does with sacrificial service that is redemptive and mutually beneficial. When self-sacrifice carries hidden motives--coercive responsibility, obligation, shame, guilt, or one's reputation--that "self-sacrifice" is not self-giving, neither serving nor being of mutual benefit. In this context, it is important to explore the attitudes and motives of self-sacrifice in Korean American families. In unlocking and exploring the dynamics of the theology and practice of self-sacrifice for Korean Americans, this book explores cultural virtues, marital relationships, gender inequality, domestic violence, and their theological implications. The author introduces a new approach and model with a proposal for a healthier and a more judicious understanding of self-sacrifice for Korean American family relationships. The element of "equal regard" as pertaining to self-sacrifice offers Korean Americans a refreshing hope in the perspective of familial relationships and a liberating casting-off of culturally and religiously imposed burdens. The Korean American family ought to be grounded on a love ethic of equal regard and place its value on mutuality, self-sacrifice, and individual fulfillment. When this is done, sacrificial love can be understood as justly appropriated for both husbands and wives, males and females, and parents and children. Thus, Christian teaching and theology may deliver a more transparent message of true agape and its liberating effects for the marginalized, especially women and children.
