영적 지향성을 가진 기독(목회)상담: 서방교회 영성과 동방정교회 영성의 통합적 만남 (Spiritually Oriented Christian (Pastoral) Counseling: An Integrative Encounter between Western Spirituality and Eastern Orthodox Spirituality)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 연세대학교 한국기독교문화연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 신학논단 / 72권 / 7 ~ 36페이지
· 저자명 : 권수영

초록

More recently, many psychotherapeutic clinicians offer the means to initiate a spiritual quest, the so-called “spiritually oriented psychotherapy,” since psychotherapy provides a context and a process to address fundamental existential issues and matters of religious faith. They might have to take into consideration the influence of religious faith on the psyche and the way the patients and/or clients function in life. They have often focused more on the psychological function of spirituality rather than the theological content of spirituality This article explores the notion that the theological content of Christian spirituality has heuristic values for the spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counselors in order for them to pay attention to the integration of the content and function of spirituality among Christian clients. The researcher will first expound and contrast the attitudes to spirituality evidenced in The Cloud of Unknowing and Gregory Palamas both living in the fourteenth century because their theological and practical (functional) differences emerge in this comparison, including attitudes to the feeling, will, and body, and these differences would show representing characteristics of an East/West differences in Christian spirituality. While the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing holds an upward quest into darkness, in which the concurrence of the human will is essential, Gregory Palamas in the East emphasizes the downward orientation into the human body (descent of the mind into the heart). A clinical case is presented that illustrates ways of integrating the different theologies implicit in Western and Eastern orthodox spirituality in terms of how the theological content functionally works for the client’s experience of the union of God in a counseling session. It is argued that different spiritual theologies might be used together to be fully aware of God’s presence and energies in the practice of a spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counseling.

영어초록

More recently, many psychotherapeutic clinicians offer the means to initiate a spiritual quest, the so-called “spiritually oriented psychotherapy,” since psychotherapy provides a context and a process to address fundamental existential issues and matters of religious faith. They might have to take into consideration the influence of religious faith on the psyche and the way the patients and/or clients function in life. They have often focused more on the psychological function of spirituality rather than the theological content of spirituality This article explores the notion that the theological content of Christian spirituality has heuristic values for the spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counselors in order for them to pay attention to the integration of the content and function of spirituality among Christian clients. The researcher will first expound and contrast the attitudes to spirituality evidenced in The Cloud of Unknowing and Gregory Palamas both living in the fourteenth century because their theological and practical (functional) differences emerge in this comparison, including attitudes to the feeling, will, and body, and these differences would show representing characteristics of an East/West differences in Christian spirituality. While the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing holds an upward quest into darkness, in which the concurrence of the human will is essential, Gregory Palamas in the East emphasizes the downward orientation into the human body (descent of the mind into the heart). A clinical case is presented that illustrates ways of integrating the different theologies implicit in Western and Eastern orthodox spirituality in terms of how the theological content functionally works for the client’s experience of the union of God in a counseling session. It is argued that different spiritual theologies might be used together to be fully aware of God’s presence and energies in the practice of a spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counseling.

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