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Pastoral Ethics
"A pragmatic approach is a theoretical integration that attempts to bring various theories together through the development of a theoretical framework that can explain the environmental, motivational, cognitive and affective domains of the individual… [hence] with psychologists, truth is changeable… [and] new truth replaces old truth as new truth is theorized, conceived, or discovered…" (Kanu, 2011, Practical Roles of Pragmatism in Pastoral Counseling Ethics).
The Role of Pragmatism in Pastoral Ethics
Pragmatism in pastoral ethics should be embraced by preachers every Sunday -- or on Sabbath mornings, if the church observes Saturday as the day of worship -- which means that the pastor is basically being careful to not delve into subjects that are to controversial and may offend some in the congregation. This paper discusses pragmatism and ethics in pastoral situations.
Martha Ellen Stortz explains in her peer-reviewed article that two years after the terrorist attacks on the United States there were some preachers that were talking about the war that President Bush had launched into Iraq, and some were not. Stortz noted a journalist for the San Jose Mercury had spend "several...
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In the Roman Catholic services, and in the evangelical Protestant services, there were discussions from the pulpit and from the congregation about the war that Bush had launched; but in the "mainstream Protestant congregations, "…there was silence," Stortz reports. As to those preachers that ignored the war topic, Stortz wondered if they perhaps were "…paralyzed by the fear that whatever they said would split the congregation?" (351). Or were they in fear of "browbeating" their congregation because the "bully pulpit" can be seen as a bullying act?
Meanwhile, is it a pragmatic thing to do for a pastor or priest to discuss current events (war, racism, the economy, etc.) during a church service? Stortz references the ethical viewpoints of Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, who offered this advice to anyone speaking in a public format: "Act so that the maxim of your action should become a universal law" (Stortz, 352). Easy for Kant to say, but Stortz notes that in the realm of pastor ethics, the preacher with a bible in his right hand and a newspaper in his left hand, who offers "fiery social justice…
Works Cited
Kanu, Alusine M. (2011). Practical Roles of Pragmatism in Pastoral Counseling Ethics.
Retrieved February 16, 2012, from http://www.articlebase.com.
Stortz, Ellen. (2003). Ethics in the Pulpit? Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 42(4), 351-355.
Wicks, Robert J., Parsons, Richard D., and Capps, Donald. (2003). Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press.
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