We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
From “The Depleted Self” to “The Will to Believe”: Excavating the Hermeneutics of Donald Capps.
- Authors
Dreyer, Yolanda
- Abstract
The concept of “reframing” lies at the heart of the pastoral psychology of Donald Capps. In previous articles I have argued that the process of reframing follows a circular hermeneutics. An excavation of Capps’ hermeneutics reveals foundations in the fields of philosophy and psychology. This article focuses on the legacy of Johann Gottfried von Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, William James and Paul Ricoeur. It explores the differences and commonalities between William James and Friedrich Schleiermacher’s understanding of religious experience as well as Paul Ricoeur’s understanding of narrativity and traces these strains to Capps’ pastoral psychology. As illustration of his pastoral approach to healing and wholeness the problem of “the depleted self,” so prevalent in “our narcissistic age,” encounters the healing narrative of Jesus that appeals to “the will to believe.”
- Subjects
CONTROL (Psychology); EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL healing; SPIRITUAL care (Medical care)
- Publication
Journal of Religion & Health, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 2, p470
- ISSN
0022-4197
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10943-017-0491-0