Pastoral Care/Psychological Theory

 

Au, Wilke and Noreen Cannon. Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration. New York: 

Paulist Press, 1995.

 

Berman, Morris. Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West. 

Battleboro, Vermont: Echo Point Books and Media, 2015.

 

Burger, Ariel. Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom. Boston: Mariner Books, 2019.

 

Biro, David. Listening to Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief. New York: WW Norton, 

2010.

 

Clinebell, Howard. Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling: Resources for the Ministry of 

Health and Growth. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

 

Coles, Robert. The Spiritual Life of Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

 

Cooper-White, Pamela. Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling. 

Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

 

Dittes, James. Pastoral Counseling: The Basics. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox 

Press, 1999.

 

Doehring, Carrie. The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. Louisville, 

Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

 

Dykstra, Robert C. Images of Pastoral Care. Atlanta, Georgia: Christian Board of 

Publication, 2005.

 

Early, Jay. Self-Therapy. Larkspur, California: Pattern System Books, 2009.

 

Erikson, Kai. A New Species of Trouble. New York: WW Norton, 1994.

 

Herman, Judith. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

 

Lawrence, Raymond J. Nine Clinical Cases: The Soul of Pastoral Care and Counseling. 

Raymond Lawrence, 2015.

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Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. The Birth of the Living God. Chicago: The University of Chicago 

Press, 1979.

 

Shapiro, Edward R. and A. Wesley Carr. Lost in Familiar Places. New, Haven Connecticut: Yale 

University Press, 1907.

 

Worden, William J. Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy. New York, Springer Publishing 

Company, 2009.

 

Winnicott, D.W. Playing and Reality. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1971.

 

Wilbur, Ken. Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy. Boston: 

Shambhala , 2000.

 

Contemplative Spirituality 

 

Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Sabbath. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1951.

 

Linn, Dennis, Sheila Fabricant Linn, and Matthew Linn. Sleeping with Bread: Holding 

What Gives you Life. Mahwah, New Jersey, 1994.

 

Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: A New Directions Book, 2007.

 

Rogers, Frank Jr. Practicing Compassion. Nashville, Tennessee, 2015. 

 

Rolheiser, Ronald. The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. New York: Image, 

2014.

 

Theology/Ethics

 

Caputo, John D. The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event. Bloomington: Indiana 

University Press, 2006.

 

De La Torre, Miguel A. Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins. New York: Orbis, 2013

 

Hauerwas , Stanley. God, Medicine, and Suffering. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. 

Eerdmans Publishing, 1990.

 

McFague, Sallie. Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia:

Fortress Press, 1987.

 

Moltmann, Jürgen. The Crucified God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

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Ritual/Religious Studies

 

Grimes, Ronald L. Deeply Into the Bone: Reinventing Rites of Passage. Los Angeles: University

of California Press, 2002.

 

Hughes, Jennifer Scheper. Biography of a Mexican Crucifix. Oxford, 2010.

 

Smith, Susan Marie. Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual. Minneapolis: 

Fortress Press, 2012.

 

Stuhlman, Byron David. Occasions of Grace: An Historical and Theological Study of the

Pastoral Offices and Episcopal Services in the Book of Common Prayer. New York: 

Church Publishing, 1995