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Title:Pastoral care to the sick in Africa: an approach to transcultural pastoral theology
Author:Berinyuu, Abraham AduISNI
Year:1988
Issue:51
Pages:136
Language:English
Series:Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums (ISSN 0170-9240)
City of publisher:Frankfurt am Main
Publisher:Lang
ISBN:3820416609
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:Christianity
health centres
Abstract:The author, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, seeks to provide a transcultural approach that will enrich the overall understanding of the Christian ministry of healing to the sick in Africa. In this approach, he pays attention to the model of dialectic dialogue of Christian theology and the psychosocial and spiritual dimension of treatment to the sick in African culture. Contents: 1. Introduction - 2. The ethos and world view of Africans - 3. Traditional African concept and causes of sickness - 4. Exploration of some of the principles and practices of pastoral care to the sick in the West - 5. An approach to African Christian pastoral care for the sick - 6. Summary and conclusions.