Title: Agents of Hope When Difference Divides
1Agents of Hope When Difference Divides
Theological Resources for Offering Pastoral Care
and Counseling Across Differences
Nancy J. Ramsay
2Theological Themes that inform Engaging
Difference in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Imago Dei Relational Justice Sin Embodiment Dignit
y of Difference
3 Imago Dei
Hospitality and Neighbor Love
Making RoomChristine Pohl
4 Imago Dei
Hospitality and Neighbor Love
Love
The Spirit and the Forms of LoveDaniel Day
Williams
5 Love
Particular people
Agency and commitment
Causal
The Spirit and the Forms of LoveDaniel Day
Williams
6 Relational Justice
Justice is the order Gods love requires
7 Relational Justice
Integrative power
8 Relational Justice
Care as a political act
African American Pastoral Care and Counseling
The Politics of Oppression and EmpowermentEdward
P. Wimberly
9 Relational Justice
Pastoral Theology as Public Theology
10 Relational Justice
Resistance and Connection
Introducing Feminist Pastoral Careand
CounselingNancy J. Gorsuch
11 Sin
The Negation of Relation
The Color of FaithFumitaka Matsuoka
12 Sin
The Negation of Relation
Sin as Lie
Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion a
Contemporary TheodicyWendy Farley
13 Sin as Lie
Deception
Callousness
Bondage
Guilt
14 Embodiment
Relation to Spirituality
15 Embodiment
Embodiment and Stigma
16 Embodiment
Embodied spirituality in contexts of stigma and
privilege
17 Embodiment
Spirituality embodied through the convergence of
gender, race, class, and orientation
18 Dignity of Difference
Particularity
Difference
The Dignity of Difference Jonathan Sacks
19 Dignity of Difference
Recognizing Gods Image in the face of those who
are not in our image
Moral and Spiritual generosity
20 Dignity of Difference
Recognizing Gods Image in the face of those who
are not in our image
God the author of diversity, is the unifying
presence within diversity.