Participating in God: A Pastoral Doctrine of the Trinity

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 2000 - Religion - 312 pages

InParticipating in God, Paul Fiddes seeks to develop an image of God that is both appropriate to the demands of pastoral care and firmly grounded in the revelation of God. He explores the way in which pastoral care shapes our doctrine of God and how faith in the triune God in turn shapes the practice of pastoral care. Fiddes elaborates on the Trinitarian context for the pastoral acts of intercessory prayer, suffering, granting forgiveness, the facing of death, the exercising of spiritual gifts, and the sacraments.

 

Contents

A Personal God and the Making of Community II
11
The Triune God and Questions of Power and Authority
62
The God who Acts and the Point of Intercessory Prayer
115
The Vulnerable God and the Problem of Suffering
152
The God of Love and the Practice of Forgiveness
191
The Living God and the Threat of Death
224
The Spirit of God and Spiritual Gifts
251
The Incarnate God and the Sacramental Life
278
Index
305
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About the author (2000)

Paul S. Fiddes is Principal of Regent's Park College, Oxford, and University Research Lecturer in the University of Oxford.

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