Partners in Care: Medicine and Ministry Together - Softcover

Reklau, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160899628X ISBN 13: 9781608996285

Publisher: Resource Publications, 2010

Synopsis

The needs for and the benefits of holistic health care--care that extends to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of individuals--have been well known for 2,500 years or so. But still, to quote the late Rodney Dangerfield, some caregivers "don't get no respect." Fred Reklau is out to change that with this book, offered as an exploration of the synergies possible among those who care for persons. In the 1980s he wrote the theses that formed the core of this book. Since then they have helped many, in groups and singly, to see their work in a new light. Chaplains, pastors, parish nurses, lay caregivers, hospice workers--all will rejoice to read this heartfelt plea to elevate them to equal status with the vital care-giving services performed by physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other members of the medical professions.

About this title

About the Authors

Frederick Reklau served as a Lutheran pastor-the last nine as a trained intentional interim pastor-for over forty years, most of them in Chicago and its suburbs. This is his first book.

Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where for 35 years he taught religious history in three faculties. Since 1956 he has been on the masthead of the Christian Century and is editor of Context. He specializes in American religious history and headed the six-year "Fundamentalism Project" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the National Medal of Humanities and the medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with the National Book Award for Righteous Empire in 1971. An ordained Lutheran minister, he frequently also writes on theological themes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160899628X
• ISBN 13: 9781608996285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150