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Allan Hugh Cole. Converging Horizons
Converging Horizons
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Pastoral Theology
What Makes Care Pastoral?
Helping With Loss, Grief, and Mourning
Male Melancholia, Identity-Loss, and Religion
A Spirit in Need of Rest
Working With Families from Religious Fundamentalist Backgrounds
The Church
More Religious than Spiritual
Bibliography
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Essays in Religion, Psychology, and Caregiving
Allan Hugh Cole Jr.
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I took to studying the ones of my teachers who were also preachers, and also the preachers who came to speak in chapel at my various exercises. In most of them I saw the old division of body and soul I had [long known]. . . . Everything bad was laid on the body, and everything good was credited to the soul. It scared me a little when I realized that I saw it the other way around. If the soul and body were really divided, then it seemed to me that all the worst sins—hatred and anger and self-righteousness and even greed and lust—came from the soul. But those preachers I’m talking about all thought that the soul could do no wrong, but always had its face washed and its pants on and was in agony over having to associate with the flesh of the world. And yet those same people believed in the resurrection of the body (49).
With Moltmann and Berry, I think of “the soul” as the whole person, in his or her entirety, in relationship to the living God. Consequently, I want to stress two matters of soul-care. First, we should think of personhood in terms of the body, mind, and soul existing in what Moltmann calls “reciprocal relation” and “mutual interpenetration” (Moltmann, 1985, 257). People are embodied souls and soulful bodies, if you will. Second, and related, the term soul denotes not part of a person that relates to God but rather the whole person in relationship to the living God, whether in life or death. A person is a soul. A soul is a person.6
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