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Puritan Resources for Biblical Pastoral Care

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2015, 23(1), pp.233-258
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2015.23.1.233
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : April 10, 2015
  • Accepted : May 13, 2015

Ahn, Kyung Seung 1

1아세아연합신학대학교

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ABSTRACT

Pastoral care has the old and rich historical resources. Although there are some societal and cultural differences, it will be useful research work for today to search for the content and tools of pastoral care until now in the Christian history. The resolution reached in the study will be the necessary resources for the pastoral care and counseling of our time. To find the historical resources, first, this paper focuses on the pastoral care in Puritan times after summing up the precedent study on Christian care in history. Its work mainly chronicles the historical shift in pastoral care from a focus on Christian approaches to a focus on psychological approaches. And we find the fact that biblical counseling has passed on traditional pastoral care and some Christian counseling has looked for Christian care resources from the history. The Puritans’ care has a unique feature that help people with concrete ways of applying the word of God emphasizing on Christian care resources. Second, this paper gives a general overview of the Puritans’ theological position and the critical issues in pastoral care. The public application of the Bible was accomplished through preaching and its private application was done through counseling. They also had interests in various field for spiritual and mental healing such as sin, repent, hope, imagination and meditation.

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