Kerygma and Conversation

Abstract

Argues that thinking of pastoral care and counseling in terms of pastoral conversation makes sense within a hermeneutic framework, particularly if that framework includes a dialogue with the Collaborative Language Systems Approach developed by Harold Goolishian and Harlene Anderson. Sees such an intellectual exercise as supporting a much needed reappreciation of pastoral conversation as therapeutic while at the same time providing imaginative openings for a postmodern pastoral theology.