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- Title
To Whom is the Chaplain Beholden? Guest Editor Introduction to Special Issue.
- Authors
Mason, Jordan
- Abstract
In this issue of Christian Bioethics, we invite chaplains and theologians to examine the role of the hospital chaplain in the contemporary institutional setting of the hospital. The simplicity of the chaplain's role is often taken for granted; yet, this role is actually multivalent, with duties and loyalties pulling from many different sides. Chaplains are people of faith, ordained and/or endorsed ministers, and pastoral care professionals; they are at once beholden to God, to their own faith expression, and to their sense of vocation, to the hospital, and to the patient. With various loyalties and responsibilities in mind, we must ask the question, "To whom is the chaplain beholden?" The responses in this issue critically and constructively examine this question, providing theological resources that call chaplaincy away from the dominant modes of medicine. Whether through a primary loyalty to their calling, to God, to Divine presence, or to the spiritual formation of the patient, the authors in this special issue aim to help chaplains find theological resources to faithfully withstand the tensions they face in modern medical institutions.
- Subjects
CHAPLAINS; PASTORAL care; SPIRITUAL formation; RELIGIOUS adherents; BIOETHICS; PARISH nursing
- Publication
Christian Bioethics: Non-ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1380-3603
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cb/cbad024