Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology

Pastoral care in the Northern hemisphere has focused traditionally on the well-being of individuals, and has tended to ignore the social order of which they are a part. In this pioneering book, Stephen Pattison draws on the methods and insights of Latin American liberation theology in order to challenge such narrow individualism, which is blind to matters of inequality and injustice that engender and perpetuate avoidable human suffering. A new vision of socially and politically aware pastoral care is presented as central to developing human potential.

Author: Stephen Pattison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/25/1994
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780521418225

About the Author
Pattison, Stephen: - Stephen Pattison is Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Practice and H. G. Wood Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. His latest books are The Challenge of Practical Theology (2007), Seeing Things: Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts (2007) and Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology (2013).

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