A Loving Home Contributor(s): Butler, Lee H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0800662679 ISBN-13: 9780800662677 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - Family & Relationships - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships |
Dewey: 306.810 |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.43 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family - Religious Orientation - Christian - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Theometrics - Mainline |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When one journeys to Ghana, one is confronted with the origins of the European-driven slave industry, symbolized by the dungeons of Elmina and Cape Coast.... Each time I have made the pilgrimage to these dungeons ... what came to me as tears ran down my face was the realization that this is probably where the difficulties in our collective relational history between African American women and men began. What stands between us? Lee Butler sends out a clarion call for us to come home. He sees our African understandings of God and humanity as foundational to our fully embracing who we are as an African (American) people -- as the whole people of God. Dr. Lee Butler has written an important work that every minister engaged in Pastoral Care needs to read. He provides culturally specific tools, hints, suggestions, and resources for working with families using love as the guiding principle and the foundation upon which meaningful Pastoral Care is built. His book is a must read for any and everyone in ministry who is serious about working with families from a position of cultural strengths and not from the usual 'deficit' model that has crippled so many African American families. I highly endorse his work, his scholarship, his insights, his sensitivity, his experience, and his expertise as a minister of the Gospel whose integrity is awesome. |