The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement by Woggon, Frank

The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement

What if Jesus did not come to die for our sins? What if, instead, Jesus's life and...
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Author: Frank Woggon
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The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement by Woggon, Frank

The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement

$88.33

The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement

$88.33
Author: Frank Woggon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

What if Jesus did not come to die for our sins? What if, instead, Jesus's life and death was intended to provide a way out of our shame? While traditional Christian teachings about the atonement emphasize sin as guilt and transgression against God's will and commandments, Frank Woggon points out that clinical spiritual care reveals that the human condition is predominantly marked by shame rather than guilt.

In The Empathic God, Woggon examines myopic readings of the Jesus event that, in turn, have embedded distortions into traditional paradigms of the atonement. In contrast, Woggon mines narratives of the human condition to engage in a critical examination of the Jesus story. As a clinician and ordained Baptist minister, Woggon presents the Jesus event as God's empathic initiative toward humanity and convincingly argues that salvation comes through empathy rather than forgiveness.

Woggon's work constructs a clinical theology of ""at-onement"" from the perspective of clinical spiritual care. The Empathic God calls for a practical response of caring participation in God's ongoing work of salvation through an empathic praxis of spiritual care. Most importantly, The Empathic God takes seriously that lived human experience is the starting point for theological exploration rather than doctrine.

This book will help practitioners and students of spiritual care in the Christian tradition to reflect more critically on the intersection of spiritual care practice and theology. The book also will challenge pastors, ministers of pastoral care, chaplains, pastoral counselors, spiritually oriented therapists to interrogate and re-interpret traumatic, shame-filled Christian teachings about the atonement so that they, too, can join in God's ongoing and liberating work of salvation.



Author: Frank Woggon
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.91w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781506496689

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