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- Title
Finding the Fit: An Eastern Orthodox Approach to Pastoral Counseling.
- Authors
Muse, Stephen
- Abstract
The author presents pastoral counseling from an Eastern Orthodox perspective, which includes both science as well as noetic encounters with the uncreated energies of divine grace that evidence the presence of Christ. Pastoral counseling involves being present with and listening to others with the same ascetical sobriety, repentance, humility, and inner silence that one brings to God in prayer. The encounter is a reciprocal process affecting both counselor and client, ultimately becoming trialogical, when hearts "become flame" as on the Emmaus way. Healing and illumination by Christ, who appears in "between," affects both client and counselor for whom therapy is part of a spiritual formation process.
- Subjects
ORTHODOX Christianity; RECIPROCAL insurance; WALK to Emmaus movement; ONTOLOGICAL proof of God; FATHERS of the church
- Publication
Edification: The Transdisciplinary Journal of Christian Psychology, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
1930-0379
- Publication type
Article