영적 지향성을 가진 기독(목회)상담 = Spiritually Oriented Christian (Pastoral) Counseling : An Integrative Encounter between Western Spirituality and Eastern Orthodox Spirituality

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

More recently, many psychotherapeutic clinicians offer the means to initiate a spiritual quest, the so-called “spiritually oriented psychotherapy,” since psychotherapy provides a context and a process to address fundamental existential issues and matters of religious faith. They might have to take into consideration the influence of religious faith on the psyche and the way the patients and/or clients function in life. They have often focused more on the psychological function of spirituality rather than the theological content of spirituality.
This article explores the notion that the theological content of Christian spirituality has heuristic values for the spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counselors in order for them to pay attention to the integration of the content and function of spirituality among Christian clients. The researcher will first expound and contrast the attitudes to spirituality evidenced in The Cloud of Unknowing and Gregory Palamas both living in the fourteenth century because their theological and practical (functional) differences emerge in this comparison, including attitudes to the feeling, will, and body, and these differences would show representing characteristics of an East/West differences in Christian spirituality. While the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing holds an upward quest into darkness, in which the concurrence of the human will is essential, Gregory Palamas in the East emphasizes the downward orientation into the human body (descent of the mind into the heart).
A clinical case is presented that illustrates ways of integrating the different theologies implicit in Western and Eastern orthodox spirituality in terms of how the theological content functionally works for the client’s experience of the union of God in a counseling session. It is argued that different spiritual theologies might be used together to be fully aware of God’s presence and energies in the practice of a spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counseling.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

More recently, many psychotherapeutic clinicians offer the means to initiate a spiritual quest, the so-called “spiritually oriented psychotherapy,” since psychotherapy provides a context and a process to address fundamental existential issues and matters of religious faith. They might have to take into consideration the influence of religious faith on the psyche and the way the patients and/or clients function in life. They have often focused more on the psychological function of spirituality rather than the theological content of spirituality.
This article explores the notion that the theological content of Christian spirituality has heuristic values for the spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counselors in order for them to pay attention to the integration of the content and function of spirituality among Christian clients. The researcher will first expound and contrast the attitudes to spirituality evidenced in The Cloud of Unknowing and Gregory Palamas both living in the fourteenth century because their theological and practical (functional) differences emerge in this comparison, including attitudes to the feeling, will, and body, and these differences would show representing characteristics of an East/West differences in Christian spirituality. While the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing holds an upward quest into darkness, in which the concurrence of the human will is essential, Gregory Palamas in the East emphasizes the downward orientation into the human body (descent of the mind into the heart).
A clinical case is presented that illustrates ways of integrating the different theologies implicit in Western and Eastern orthodox spirituality in terms of how the theological content functionally works for the client’s experience of the union of God in a counseling session. It is argued that different spiritual theologies might be used together to be fully aware of God’s presence and energies in the practice of a spiritually oriented Christian (pastoral) counseling.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 들어가는 말
• Ⅱ. 서방의 ‘가슴의 영성’: 인간의 의지(will)와 사랑(love)을 통한 하나님 경험
• Ⅲ. 동방의 또 다른 ‘가슴의 영성’: 인간 신체의 중심부로 하강하는 하나님 경험
• IV. 사례연구: “엄마가 지옥불에 타고 있어요.” 영적인 환상을 보는 우울증 환자
• V. 나가는 말
• 참고문헌
• Abstract