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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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The Basis in Faith | |
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The Plan of the Book | |
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The Context of Pastoral Psychotherapy | |
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God and the World | |
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The Marks of Healing | |
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A World Flawed and Good | |
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The Condition of Western Society | |
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The Tension of Individual and Community | |
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God Among the Influences | |
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God's Play and Human Community | |
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Communities Jewish and Christian | |
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Communities and Their Faiths | |
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Bion, the Self, and the Group | |
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Community Distortion and Its Pain | |
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Choices We Must Make | |
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Our Gifts to the Community | |
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God in the Creation of Selfhood | |
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The Structure of Experience | |
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The Transmission of Ego and Culture | |
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The Role of Internal Space | |
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Internalizing the Other | |
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The Rearticulation of Self | |
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The Problems in Our Growing | |
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The Potential for Abuse | |
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God's Obstacles: Sin and Evil | |
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The Rupture of Community | |
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The Pretense of Control | |
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Preferred Sins of the Postmodern West | |
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The Organization of Sinful Power | |
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Evil's Invasion of the Self | |
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The Entrenchment of Sin | |
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Pastoral Psychotherapy as the Play of God | |
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The Hope of Pastoral Psychotherapy | |
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Beginnings of Liberation | |
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Memory As an Opening for Grace | |
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The Therapist's Contribution | |
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The therapist and the Space | |
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The Ground Rules and the Frame | |
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The Context for Psychotherapy | |
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The Hallowing of the Space | |
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The Community Creates the Space | |
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Hallowing Through the Therapist | |
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The Client Hallows the Space | |
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Sacred Play in Hallowed Spaces | |
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Connection, the Container, and Reverie | |
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The Thinker and the Thought | |
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The Entry into Sabbathing | |
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The Fertile Middle Phase | |
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To Exploration and Action | |
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Transference, Intersubjectivity, and the Holy Spirit | |
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Countertransference As an Asset | |
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The Classic Doctrine of the Holy Spirit | |
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Transference, Countertransference, and Intersubjectivity | |
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The Enabling of the Holy Spirit | |
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The Spirit in the Therapy | |
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Crisis, Participation, Communion | |
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Therapist As Bearer of the Spirit: Psychotherapy and Christology | |
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The Recent History of Christology | |
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Jesus--How Unique and Unique How? | |
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Therapist As Christ Figure: How and How Not | |
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The Meaning of Our Daily Lives | |
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Suffering--Messianic and Therapeutic | |
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The Content of the Saving Claim | |
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Money, Profession, and the State | |
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The Play of God: Powerful Selves in Empowering Community | |
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The Hallowed Space | |
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Play | |
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Bursts of Clarity | |
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Birth into the Hallowed Space | |
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Therapy As Liberating Multiplicity | |
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Engaging the New World | |
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The Messianic Task of Psychotherapy | |
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The Self and the Community | |
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Naming the Mystery | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |