My thesis is that a pastoral theology of forgiveness can function between marital partners as a grace-grounded ethos depicted as facing each other. The image of facing each other symbolizes three kinds of forgiveness that I propose later: inviting, clearing away, and enriching. Theologically, these facing images emerge from the notions of ethos and hope and from an anthropology of forgiven and forgiving. Such a pastoral theology supports common notions of forgiveness as decision, event, attitude, process, and changes in emotions and attitudes yet also offers its own significant contribution for pastoral contexts. As such, this pastoral theology affirms pastoral caregivers, pastoral counselors, and marital partners as sharers in and mediators of divine grace more than as skilled technicians of modern therapeutic methods.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-11062008-122613 |
| Date | 06 November 2008 |
| Creators | Thompson, Robert |
| Contributors | Joretta Marshall |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-11062008-122613/ |
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