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July 28, 2008
The Sine Qua Non of the Clinical Pastoral Care & Training Movement by George Hull
No pastoral care and certifying organization can be compelled to adopt
a posture of critical self-reflection. However, one would expect that
one of the marks of an organization standing within the historical
clinical pastoral care and training movement would be a posture of
critical self-reflection.
Given this tradition of self-critical reflection this would not negate the critique of one cognate group by another rather it would promote it. The self-critical faculty is the
sine qua non of the pastoral care and training movement. The movement is best safeguarded when the all the serious voices of critique are validated and none are censored. In contrast to movements seeking to speak with one voice the clinical pastoral care and training movement speaks with many voices and is best represented by the voice of many.
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Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at July 28, 2008 12:25 AM