Overview Chapter 1 - IntroductionGifted Self Chapter 2 - Beloved Self Chapter 3 - Waiting Self Chapter 4 - Sexual SelfExploring Self Chapter 5 - Relational Self Chapter 6 - Limited Self Chapter 7 - Vulnerable Self Chapter 8 - Mortal SelfSustaining Self Chapter 10 - Meaningful Self Bibliography
An accessible resource for students and pracititioners to become aware of the significance of self-knowledge for the provision of sensitive spiritual and pastoral care.
Ewan Kelly initially studied medicine and worked as a junior doctor before completing a theology degree and becoming ordained as a Church of Scotland minister. He currently works as Programme Director for Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care, NHS Education for Scotland and as a part-time senior Lecturer in Pastoral Theology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
‘It is a very long time since I have read a work of pastoral
theology as rich, perceptive, and elegantly expressed as Personhood
and Presence. Ewan Kelly is absolutely right on all three counts.
The self is the best gift the caregiver has to offer. Acute
self-awareness is needed to fully offer the gift. Such reflexivity
is a moral imperative. This book has the power to inform and
transform the reader's pastoral practice at the deepest level. The
way in which Kelly weaves together theological, psychological, and
poetic insights is nothing short of brilliant.' - Neil Pembroke,
University of Queensland, Australia
*Neil Pembroke*
Jesus tells us to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your
mind; and, Love your neighbour as yourself." Loving God and
neighbour seems obvious to many of us, but love of self? In order
to know and to love ourselves and to learn what it means to love
God and care for others, we need to be able to look properly at
ourselves. In this important, rigorous and sometimes moving book
Ewan Kelly teaches us what it might mean to know and to love
ourselves in such a way that we can truly reach out with love and
care towards God and others. When we encounter ourselves; our true
selves as they stand before God, so we learn what it means to love
with the fullness of God. This book is an important contribution to
theology and practice.
*John Swinton, University of Aberdeen, UK*
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