Leroy T. Howe
Autore di A Pastor in Every Pew: Equipping Laity for Pastoral Care
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Leroy Howe is an ordained United Methodist minister. He served as professor of pastoral theology at Southern Methodist University for twenty-nine years and is the author of three books and over 175 articles and reviews
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Listening Skills for Caregivers
Leroy Howe
Often Christians ask, how can they be afraid and still have faith? Bringing together the wisdom of the Christian faith tradition and insights from several schools of modern psychology, this book offers a careful analysis of the origin and dynamics of fear in human experience. The author shows how to transform fears from crippling emotion into a way to search for God. While of interest to all, the book is especially meant to help lay ministers comfort others.
Clear and accessible, this book:
• Blends the wisdom of faith with the insights of several schools of psychology to analyze fear and anxiety
• Translates these principles into concrete pastoral action
• Reveals fears as possible sources of grace and an invitation to open up to God
• Provides caregivers practical help in comforting the fearful
• Shows how to establish a parish-based program of lay caregivers… (altro)