Be Not Anxious: Pastoral Care of Disquieted Souls

As Allan Cole knows firsthand, both personally and pastorally, Christians are not immune from anxiety, and many believers go to their church leaders for support and solace. This helpful book draws on narrative approaches to theology and counseling to suggest how pastoral caregivers may effectively minister to anxious persons.Be Not Anxious provides pastors and other caregivers with a basic understanding of anxiety, including how to identify those suffering from it and how to get at what is making them anxious. Cole focuses both on cognitive-based methods and on common faith practices -- church membership, frequent worship, prayer, Bible reading, service, and confession -- showing how these may provide relief from anxiety. By addressing the roles of both psychiatry and ministry as co-liberators from anxiety, he leads the pastor and the faith community in helping disquieted souls to find rest.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 11/01/2008
ISBN: 9780802863102
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Christian Century 12/01/2009 pg. 40