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Effective Counseling on Death & Dying in Christian Counseling: Centering around Biblical & Theological Foundation

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2009, 12(), pp.43-68
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2009.12..43
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : March 28, 2009
  • Accepted : May 14, 2009

JOSEPH JEON 1

1성결대학교

ABSTRACT

This paper is to clarify the effective counseling on death & dying in Christian counseling. According to the Genesis of the old testament, death came from human’s transgression. A question on death & dying is a foundational question and ultimate asking for humans’existence. Also, death is painful, threatening, and powerful being. So human being is making resistance to avoid death by a lot of medical treatments or methods. Human being, however, is mortal being. In Christian counseling, a counselor ought to make confrontation with death for a client. A Christian counselor has to check whether a client has belief on the Kingdom of heaven beyond death or not. Also, a Christian counselor’s role is to give desire for the hopeful future: the Kingdom of heaven to a client. Generally, eschatology in systematic theology and/or biblical theology have dealt with discussion on death. Eschatology contains things of future, judgement, reward, the Kingdom of heaven, hell, ect. Christian counseling must deal with that what the Bible says on death & dying. Accordingly, this research handled necessity of research for death & dying, definition and notion of death, origin of death, understanding on death through metaphor in the Bible, and counseling methods on death & dying. In conclusion, the researcher emphasized that a Christian counselor ought more to dealt with confidence on salvation and the Kingdom of God through Christ to a client than to avoid death anxiety or thanatophobia to a client. Also, a Christian counselor does not focus on the isolation, nihility, sadness, and regret of a client in due to death. First of all, a Christian counselor has to get a confidence on salvation and the Kingdom of heaven in order to do counseling effectively. The reason to study death in advance is to live meaning life in this world. To deal with cognition on death biblically is essential of Christian counseling.

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