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HealthCare Chaplaincy, with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, is pleased to offer Practical Bearings, a series of bibliographies and critical reviews of the important books, articles and other publications on the theory and practice of pastoral care.
The series name Practical Bearings derives from the Pragmatic Maxim of the great philosophers Charles Sanders Peirce and William James who contended that all important ideas have consequences for life and living—that is, “practical bearings.”
“Practical Bearings will point professional chaplains to resources that will help them fulfill their mission in the evolving and complex world of health care,” says Rev. Dr. Leonard Hummel, editor-in-chief and director of supervised clinical ministry at Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He is a visiting scholar at HealthCare Chaplaincy.
HealthCare Chaplaincy plans at least six issues, each on a single topic. Each issue will contain:
- The rationale behind the key role that the topic plays in the profession of pastoral care
- A list of the three to five publications on that topic that are either most essential or most representative with a summary and comments on each
- Other publications of value
Click on the title to download each edition in an easy-to-print PDF file:
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