What is it about?
I address the relationship of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and professional chaplaincy to science by looking at the past in order to find meaning for the present. Specifically I explore the stories of Elwood Worcester, Anton Boisen and the beginnings of CPR. I conclude that these and other founding fathers believed they were called to continue Christ's healing ministry and turned to science as a means to do so although their relationship to science was often strained.
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Why is it important?
This work is a chapter in the book Professional Chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education Should Become More Scientific: Yes or No? Published in 2002 by Haworth Pastoral Press. The book itself the issue of science and theology, in this case pastoral theology. How does and should pastoral care and counseling make use of science?
Perspectives
I dealt with the issue of chaplaincy and CPE by taking an historical perspective. From this three issues emerge: the experience of a spiritual calling to do healing, the significance of science's "salt effect" as the means that makes a healing ministry possible, and the significance of faith as the identity around which a relationship with science is developed.
Dr Joseph Baroody
Baroody Pastoral Counseling
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This page is a summary of: Should Clinical Pastoral Education and Professional Chaplaincy Become More Scientific? It's a Matter of Salt, Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, September 2002, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1300/j080v12n01_01.
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