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There is simply no finer new scholar working in this field today. All readers will profit substantially from this work, since McClure's vision of an ecclesial mission committed to social transformation far exceeds the particular issues of pastoral counseling. --Rodney J. Hunter Emory University Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling is truly groundbreaking in its theological envisioning and analysis of the implications of social location for the structuring of pastoral care. Rarely is serious attention paid to the class implications of our ministries. On that issue Barbara McClure has set a very high standard for us all. --Mary McClintock-Fulkerson Duke University In this lucid, critical, and constructive book Barbara McClure moves the whole debate about the nature and locus of appropriate pastoral care and counseling on to a new level of analysis and sophistication. The implications of her careful arguments and studies are nothing short of revolutionary. This is a book that should be read and acted upon by anyone who really wants to see pastoral work make a difference in the contemporary world. --Stephen Pattison University of Birmingham, UK In Moving Beyond Individualism Barbara McClure offers a brilliantly constructed new synergistic model for pastoral theology and the practices of care that recognizes the more profoundly socio-cultural and relational complexity of human beings and suffering. Her model helps us transcend the theological and social limitations of individualism and provides new resources for engaging in effective care with persons and systems whose distress is shaped by larger social forces. --Nancy J. Ramsay Brite Divinity School Dr. McClure serves as a helpful conversation partner for pastors serving congregations. By challenging the individualistic models that most of us learned in seminary, she helps us to imagine a more synergistic and prophetic vision for pastoral care that encourages pastors to facilitate healing by drawing connections between the personal and the socio-political, leading us from the safety of our book-lined offices into the risky, vulnerable, and ultimately healing work of changing the world. --Bradley E. Schmeling St. John's Lutheran Church, Atlanta, Georgia.

"""""There is simply no finer new scholar working in this field today. All readers will profit substantially from this work, since McClure's vision of an ecclesial mission committed to social transformation far exceeds the particular issues of pastoral counseling."""" --Rodney J. Hunter Emory University """"Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling is truly groundbreaking in its theological envisioning and analysis of the implications of social location for the structuring of pastoral care. Rarely is serious attention paid to the class implications of our ministries. On that issue Barbara McClure has set a very high standard for us all."""" --Mary McClintock-Fulkerson Duke University """"In this lucid, critical, and constructive book Barbara McClure moves the whole debate about the nature and locus of appropriate pastoral care and counseling on to a new level of analysis and sophistication. The implications of her careful arguments and studies are nothing short of revolutionary. This is a book that should be read and acted upon by anyone who really wants to see pastoral work make a difference in the contemporary world."""" --Stephen Pattison University of Birmingham, UK """"In Moving Beyond Individualism Barbara McClure offers a brilliantly constructed new synergistic model for pastoral theology and the practices of care that recognizes the more profoundly socio-cultural and relational complexity of human beings and suffering. Her model helps us transcend the theological and social limitations of individualism and provides new resources for engaging in effective care with persons and systems whose distress is shaped by larger social forces."""" --Nancy J. Ramsay Brite Divinity School """"Dr. McClure serves as a helpful conversation partner for pastors serving congregations. By challenging the individualistic models that most of us learned in seminary, she helps us to imagine a more synergistic and prophetic vision for pastoral care that encourages pastors to facilitate healing by drawing connections between the personal and the socio-political, leading us from the safety of our book-lined offices into the risky, vulnerable, and ultimately healing work of changing the world."""" --Bradley E. Schmeling St. John's Lutheran Church, Atlanta, Georgia."

There is simply no finer new scholar working in this field today. All readers will profit substantially from this work, since McClure's vision of an ecclesial mission committed to social transformation far exceeds the particular issues of pastoral counseling. --Rodney J. Hunter Emory University Moving Beyond Individualism in Pastoral Care and Counseling is truly groundbreaking in its theological envisioning and analysis of the implications of social location for the structuring of pastoral care. Rarely is serious attention paid to the class implications of our ministries. On that issue Barbara McClure has set a very high standard for us all. --Mary McClintock-Fulkerson Duke University In this lucid, critical, and constructive book Barbara McClure moves the whole debate about the nature and locus of appropriate pastoral care and counseling on to a new level of analysis and sophistication. The implications of her careful arguments and studies are nothing short of revolutionary. This is a book that should be read and acted upon by anyone who really wants to see pastoral work make a difference in the contemporary world. --Stephen Pattison University of Birmingham, UK In Moving Beyond Individualism Barbara McClure offers a brilliantly constructed new synergistic model for pastoral theology and the practices of care that recognizes the more profoundly socio-cultural and relational complexity of human beings and suffering. Her model helps us transcend the theological and social limitations of individualism and provides new resources for engaging in effective care with persons and systems whose distress is shaped by larger social forces. --Nancy J. Ramsay Brite Divinity School Dr. McClure serves as a helpful conversation partner for pastors serving congregations. By challenging the individualistic models that most of us learned in seminary, she helps us to imagine a more synergistic and prophetic vision for pastoral care that encourages pastors to facilitate healing by drawing connections between the personal and the socio-political, leading us from the safety of our book-lined offices into the risky, vulnerable, and ultimately healing work of changing the world. --Bradley E. Schmeling St. John's Lutheran Church, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Barbara J. McClure is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Graduate Department of Religion and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before teaching at Vanderbilt, she spent seven years as a practicing pastoral counselor in Atlanta, Georgia.

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