Towards religious identity : : an exercise in spiritual guidance / / Tjeu van Knippenberg.

• Superior document: Studies in Theology and Religion ; Volume 4
• VerfasserIn: Knippenberg, Mathijs Peter Jozef van, 1937-
• Place / Publishing House: Assen, The Netherlands : : Royal van Gorcum,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in theology and religion ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

STAR - Studies in Theology and Religion, 4 The spiritual dimension of existence has always been a part of people's lives. Religion serves this dimension, in which people are confronted with the question of what is holy and what is ultimately important. In Towards Religious Identity Tjeu van Kni...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I Identification
• 1 Development and Characteristics
• 1.1 Healing in the sacraments
• 1.2 Purification in confession
• Early developments in the practice of confession
• Later developments in the practice of confession
• 1.3 Wholeness through spiritual guidance
• The monk's confession
• Becoming free
• 1.4 The cultural factor
• The vulnerability of confession
• Pluralisation and individualisation
• Theological evaluation
• 1.5 Characteristics
• Starting point
• Objective
• 2 Ecclesiastical and Poimenic Position
• 2.1 The tending of the soul
• Care of souls
• Main activity
• 2.2 Activity of the church
• Biblical origin
• Ecclesiastical anchorage
• 2.3 Actual situation
• Pastors: time, theme and function
• Parishioners: function, frequency and theme
• Pastor and parishioner: image of oneself and image of the other
• Conclusions
• 2.4 Poimenic discussion
• Spiritual direction as a basis
• The rise of pastoral counselling
• Kerugmatic model
• Kerugma versus counselling
• The rise of spiritual guidance
• 2.5 A description
• 3 Path of Life and Perspective
• 3.1 The path of life
• 3.2 Perspective
• 3.3 Christian and worldly perspective
• 3.4 Guidance perspectives
• 3.5 Spiritual perspective
• 3.6 The relation of perspectives
• 3.7 The interpretation of perspectives
• 3.8 The spiritual perspective in language
• Conditions
• Possibilities
• Part II Progress and Content
• 4 Process and Guidance
• 4.1 Life story
• 4.2 Changes
• 4.3 Dimensions of change
• Somatic change
• Psychosocial change
• Existential change
• Spiritual change
• Connection
• 4.4 Stability
• The point of stability
• Christian anchorage
• 4.5 Ambivalence
• 4.6 Change through spiritual guidance
• Guiding change.
• The religious ritual as a guide in change
• Biblical examples
• 5 Question as to Meaning and Christian Faith
• 5.1 Meaning and faith
• 5.2 The experience of time
• Time and culture
• Time and boundaries
• 5.3 The experience of space
• Space and culture
• Space and boundaries
• 5.4 Christian faith and the meaning of time and space
• 5.5 Coherence of meaning
• Heir
• Guest
• Travelling companion
• 5.6 Life orientation
• 6 Theology and Identity
• 6.1 Introductory anthropological observations
• 6.2 Creation
• Creation and the meaning of life
• Covenant
• Sacrament
• 6.3 Decalogue
• The Name I Am
• The structuring of time
• The structuring of space
• 6.4 Religious identity as the objective
• Part III In Practice
• 7 Guidance Model
• 7.1 Base structure
• 7.2 Hermeneutic framework
• 7.3 Agogic framework
• 7.4 Hermeneutic and agogic intervention within the base structure
• The line of time: autobiographic competence
• The line of space: relational competence
• The inside line: between name and identity
• 8 Competence and Applications
• 8.1 Competence
• 8.2 Recognition via the model
• 8.3 Active use of the model
• 8.4 Reactive use of the model
• Bibliography
• Index of Names.