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The Living Human Web and Pastoral/ Practical Theology of Bonnie Miller-McLemore.

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2010, 15(), pp.253-278
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2010.15..253
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 27, 2010
  • Accepted : November 11, 2010

Ha, Jae Sung 1

1고신대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Dr. Bonnie Miller-McLemore, a feminist pastoral theologian at Vanderbilt University, has replaced a long-standing metaphor of Anton Boisen's "Living Human Documents" in pastoral theology with "The Living Human Web." The replacement means more than a simple extension of a research object from an individual person to his or her surrounding relational environments. It is true that "the Living Human Web" as a new paradigmatic metaphor excels the scope of individualistic psychology. However, the metaphor also signals a radical shift of pastoral/practical theological method from a correlational method to a revised correlational method between theology and science. Miller-McLemore has been actively engaged with feminist theories and social sciences, but she consistently pursues resources of healing of the web from the biblical and theological tradition. She employs and maintains a mutually critical method when she has to utilize social sciences according to the declared motto in order to fulfill its ideals.

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