Pastoral care and counselling: Towards a post-metaphysical theology of friendship
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Morrison, G. J.
(2007).
Pastoral care and counselling: Towards a post-metaphysical theology of friendship.
Australian EJournal of Theology, (9).
Abstract
The article sets out to develop an eschatological ethic of friendship to guide pastoral care and counselling towards a liberating practice. It uses post-metaphysical categories and terms from the ethical metaphysics of Emmanuel Levinas to enrich pastoral theology. The aim is to stretch compassion towards the future world of Isa 64: 4 and 1 Cor 2:9 in which we can announce a logos of friendship. By having such a sense of transcendence (an experience of a non-experience), compassion as friendship testifies to the Reign of God and to the very hope of encountering Christ in one another.
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