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A 4 page paper that discusses different approaches to pastoral care: fundamentalist, imagist, informative, thematic and tokinist. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Campbell; informative as described by Capps; and thematic as described by Oglesby. Magezi (2007, p. 122) comments that it is important for pastors not to underestimate the importance of psychology
in pastoral counseling. Psychology provides insights that help pastoral counselors be more effective. The challenge for all Christians is in synchronizing the Gods inerrant and inspired Word with the insights
and knowledge of secular psychology. Crabb suggests different approaches to dealing with this issue. The first is a separate but equal paradigm that asserts Scripture must be used when
a pastor is dealing with theological and spiritual problems that have to do with Christians beliefs while psychology would be used for other issues. Another approach is the tossed salad
paradigm where appropriate parts of each are included but that it is Scripture that offers the truths (Magezi 2007, p. 123). Crabb firmly believes that psychology comes under the authority
of Scripture so that if Scripture contradicts something promoted in psychology, Scripture is to be accepted as the truth in the matter (Magezi 2007, p. 125). This is the
fundamentalist of Biblicist approach. Scripture will always be superior to psychology because the Bible is Gods infallible Word. One can see why this approach is not in as much favor
as it once was. Consider the fact that different sub-fields in genetic research and behavior genetic research is linking certain personality traits and other aspects of human behaviors, attitudes, and
tendencies are linked to specific genes and chromosomes. Capps offers the metaphor of untying the know as an approach in pastoral care. It means that the pastor listens and
understands what someone is saying in a counseling situation. The pastor is gaining information, thus, the informative approach. Capps discusses the importance of narrative models of counseling. These models help
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