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This Isnt Your Parents Chaplaincy Any
MoreRe-Imagining Spiritual Care amidst Seismic
Shifts in Theology and Health Care
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Focusing on Outcomes

• Subjective
• increased well-being, hopeful future
• story, etc.
• Objective decreased anxiety, higher
• patient satisfaction, etc.

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Focusing on Outcomes

• Other disciplines value
• results, not explanations

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What is it, really, that we do?
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What is it, really, that we do?

• Among many other things, we
• Facilitate the process of adaptation to changing
  circumstances

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What is it, really, that we do?

• Among many other things, we
• Facilitate the process of adaptation to changing
  circumstances
• We reflect with the patient for the purpose of
  making meaning

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What is it, really, that we do?

• Among many other things, we
• Facilitate the process of adaptation to changing
  circumstances
• We reflect with the patient for the purpose of
  making meaning
• We generate courage and hope to face an uncertain
  future

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Patients report

• Lessened physical pain
• Lowered anxiety
• Patient satisfaction goes up
• Suicidal ideation goes down
• Even length of stay is lowered

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A new language is emerging

• Post-religious
• Spirituality and psyche-based
• Changed focus, from beliefs and
• traditions and resources to
• emotions and congruence and
• meaning-making

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And a new focus

• Patient well-being
• Positive coping

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Seismic Shifting

• Postmodern theologies
• Dissemination of historical-critical narratives
• Influence of Eastern philosophies
• Rise of integrative therapies
• Popularization of evolutionary spirituality
• Mainstreaming of quantum physics and bioenergy
• Advent of positive psychology
• A new philosophy of re-creation

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Key influences
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Key influences

• Pluralism a case study

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Key influences

• Pluralism
• Exponential technological
• development

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Key influences
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Key influences
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Key influences

• Pluralism
• Exponential technological
• development
• Eastern approaches to wellness

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Key influences
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Key influences

• Pluralism
• Exponential technological
• development
• Eastern approaches to wellness
• Postmodern theologies

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Key influences
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Seismic Shifts in Theology

• Post- World War I Neo-orthodoxy the scriptures
  not as literal truth but as ongoing revelation
  recognition of human distortion

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Seismic Shifts in Theology

• Post- World War I Neo-orthodoxy the scriptures
  not as literal truth but as ongoing revelation
  recognition of human distortion
• Post-Holocaust theologies that shifted from
  dualistic perspectives to dialecticism

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Seismic Shifts in Theology

• Post- World War I Neo-orthodoxy the scriptures
  not as literal truth but as ongoing revelation
  recognition of human distortion
• Post-Holocaust theologies that shifted from
  dualistic perspectives to dialecticism
• Process thought and the emphasis on becoming the
  rise of the human potential movement

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Seismic Shifts in Theology

• Post- World War I Neo-orthodoxy the scriptures
  not as literal truth but as ongoing revelation
  recognition of human distortion
• Post-Holocaust theologies that shifted from
  dualistic perspectives to dialecticism
• Process thought and the emphasis on becoming the
  rise of the human potential movement
• Liberation and feminist theologies

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Seismic Shifts in Theology

• Post- World War I Neo-orthodoxy the scriptures
  not as literal truth but as ongoing revelation
  recognition of human distortion
• Post-Holocaust theologies that shifted from
  dualistic perspectives to dialecticism
• Process thought and the emphasis on becoming the
  rise of the human potential movement
• Liberation and feminist theologies
• Creation/evolutionary spirituality, quantum
  theology, and the integration of scientific
  perspectives

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal
• It is person-centered, with growth and
  development rooted in increased consciousness

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal
• It is person-centered, with growth and
  development rooted in increased consciousness
• It recognizes the intentionality of creation
  toward greater complexity and beauty

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal
• It is person-centered, with growth and
  development rooted in increased consciousness
• It recognizes the intentionality of creation
  toward greater complexity and beauty
• It orients us toward our process of becoming

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal
• It is person-centered, with growth and
  development rooted in increased consciousness
• It recognizes the intentionality of creation
  toward greater complexity and beauty
• It orients us toward our process of becoming
• It emphasizes resilience and meaning-making,
  adaptation and post-traumatic growth

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Primary features of emerging postmodern
theologies

• Growing emphasis on immanence and embeddness in
  the heart of all creation (Jim Marions Death of
  the Mythic Sky God)
• It embraces the mystical and honors the liminal
• It is person-centered, with growth and
  development rooted in increased consciousness
• It recognizes the intentionality of creation
  toward greater complexity and beauty
• It orients us toward our process of becoming
• It emphasizes resilience and meaning-making and
  adaptation and post-traumatic growth
• It de-emphasizes personal beliefs and creedal
  formulas in favor of sacred experience and
  perception

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We are creatures of spirit.
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We are creatures of spirit

• Letting go of certainty and deconstructing
• traditional perspectives

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We are creatures of spirit

• Letting go of certainty and deconstructing
• traditional perspectives
• Embracing change and re-constructing creative
• imagination

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We are creatures of spirit

• Letting go of certainty and deconstructing
• traditional perspectives
• Embracing change and re-constructing creative
• imagination
• On the cusp of becoming a new discipline

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Thank you!