Hospitable Witnessing: Using Autoethnography to Reflect Theologically on a Journey of Friendship and Mental Health Problems - Couverture souple

Oh, Priscilla Sun Kyung

 
9781532603976: Hospitable Witnessing: Using Autoethnography to Reflect Theologically on a Journey of Friendship and Mental Health Problems
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ISBN 10 : 1532603975 ISBN 13 : 9781532603976
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Drawing on her own experience of befriending a person suffering from a long-term mental health challenge, Priscilla Oh reflects on the meaning of care and friendship theologically. Using autoethnography, she goes beyond the personal experience and examines various issues surrounding mental health. Hospitable Witnessing candidly takes readers into the everyday life of being with a mentally ill person. There are emotional challenges and contingencies in sustaining friendship and caring for a person with a long-term mental health problem. Oh points out that those who care for a loved one during a long-term illness inevitably experience “burnout” resulting from the constant care requirements. Under such an enormous disruption, we need to be compassionate toward another’s suffering and be willing to be present and available for them. This book suggests our need of one another and identifies three important Christian practices: caring as we are being made in the image of God, compassion as being present with the sufferer, and lament as to revitalize our faith and hope.

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À propos de l?auteur

Priscilla Sun Kyung Oh is a practical theologian and author. After her formulative studies in Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts, USA and her PhD at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, her research became focused on stories of people with mental health problems and how practical theology might help them. Recently, she began to explore the idea of identity formation practice for people with dementia and their families, and pose a meaningful question: What does dementia mean for the body of Christ as a whole?

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1532603975
ISBN 13 
9781532603976
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
210
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781532603990: Hospitable Witnessing: Using Autoethnography to Reflect Mental Health Problems Theologically Through a Lens of Friendship

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ISBN 10 :  1532603991 ISBN 13 :  9781532603990
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2018
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