
Caring through the Funeral
Gene Fowler(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 24. January 2020
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-1-7252-5883-9 (ISBN)
Description
Caring through the Funeral is a guidebook to take pastors through the complete funeral process, from the moment the call is received to the weeks following the funeral. More than just a ""how-to,"" Caring through the Funeral uniquely addresses the funeral process from the perspective of pastoral ministry--of pastoral caring throughout the time of mourning, from the death through post-funeral grieving. Many times the funeral is the most momentous means of pastoral caring for the bereaved, and often it is the only time that the church has an opportunity to care for the family and friends.
Gene Fowler explores what pastors go through at each stage of the funeral process. Both descriptive and conceptual, Fowler's practical advice, solid pastoral and theological grounding, and case illustrations take pastors and student pastors through many issues:
- the language of loss--the vocabulary ministers need for this caring ministry
- bereavement and grief
- pastoral care of family members
- pastoral care of non-family members, including groups within the church and community
- the funeral as worship service, including a comparison of our Protestant liturgical books and the elements that comprise a Christian funeral
- practical issues of planning the service, including sample services
- funeral service as means of caring for the bereaved and as a rite of passage, and the interrelationship between funerals, mourning, and grief
- how funerals often launch mourners on a spiritual journey
- questions asked by the bereaved
- role of resurrection in pastoral care
- pastoral care after the funeral
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
437 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-5883-9 (9781725258839)
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01/2020
Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Person
Gene Fowler served as pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), prior to his death in 2020. He earned a PhD in pastoral theology from Princeton Theological Seminary and while he served the church authored Caring Through the Funeral: A Pastor's Guide (2004) and Church Abuse of Clergy: A Radical New Understanding (2020). He was dedicated to the study of pastoral theology in the context of the local congregation.