Title

Pastoral Care and Counselling: Towards a Post-Metaphysical Theology of Friendship

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Article

Publication Date

3-2007

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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The Australian EJournal of Theology is an Open Access publication and this article may be accessed from the publisher here

The Australian EJournal of Theology may be accessed from the National Library of Australia here

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