Prayer and the soul: Dialogues that heal

Journal of Religion and Health

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 231-242

  Kelcourse, Felicity Brock ^a  

^a CTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Death; God; Healing; Prayer; Soul; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039300157     PISSN: 00224197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012554827574     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Herbert Benson, Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief (New York: Fireside Books, 1996).
2. Larry Dossey, Healing Words (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993).
3. George Fitchett, "Screening for Spiritual Risk," Chaplaincy Today 15, no. 1 (1999): 2-12; George Fitchett, Bruce D. Rybarczyk, Gail A. DeMarco and John J. Nicholas, "The Role of Religion in Medical Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study," Rehabilitation Psychology 44, no. 4 (1999): 1-22; Larry VandeCreek, ed. Spiritual Needs and Pastoral Care Services: Readings in Research (Decatur, GA: Journal of Pastoral Care Publications, Inc., 1995).
4. George Fitchett, "Screening for Spiritual Risk," Chaplaincy Today 15, no. 1 (1999): 2-12; George Fitchett, Bruce D. Rybarczyk, Gail A. DeMarco and John J. Nicholas, "The Role of Religion in Medical Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study," Rehabilitation Psychology 44, no. 4 (1999): 1-22; Larry VandeCreek, ed. Spiritual Needs and Pastoral Care Services: Readings in Research (Decatur, GA: Journal of Pastoral Care Publications, Inc., 1995).
5. George Fitchett, "Screening for Spiritual Risk," Chaplaincy Today 15, no. 1 (1999): 2-12; George Fitchett, Bruce D. Rybarczyk, Gail A. DeMarco and John J. Nicholas, "The Role of Religion in Medical Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study," Rehabilitation Psychology 44, no. 4 (1999): 1-22; Larry VandeCreek, ed. Spiritual Needs and Pastoral Care Services: Readings in Research (Decatur, GA: Journal of Pastoral Care Publications, Inc., 1995).
6. Craig Dykstra, Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices (Louiseville, KY: Geneva Press, 1999).
7. Except as noted, all quotations from Christian Scripture are from the Oxford Annotated Bible, Revised Standard Version.
8. Ann and Barry Ulanov, Primary Speech: a Psychology of Prayer (Atlanta: John Knox, 1982).
9. Phyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1978).
10. Antonio Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (New York: Putnam, 1994).
11. Ann and Barry Ulanov, Religion and the Unconscious (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975).
12. Felicity Kelcourse, Discernment: the Art of Attention in Spirituality and Psychotherapy (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1998).
13. Edward Edinger, Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche (New York: Penguin, 1972).
14. Ann Ulanov, personal communication, spring 1991.
15. Victor Turner, ed., Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982).
16. Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1977).
17. Allison Whitby, "Mrs. Fisher: A Case of Ministry for Spiritual Risk," Chaplaincy Today 15, no. 1 (1999): 27-29.
18. Efrain Bleiberg, "Normal and Pathological Narcissism in Adolescence," American Journal of Psychotherapy, 48, no. 1 (1994): 22.
19. Jeremiah Abrams and Connie Zweig, Meeting the Shadow: the Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature (Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, 1991).
20. Felicity Kelcourse, "Discernment: The Soul's Eye View," in Out of the Silence: Quaker Perspective in Pastoral Care and Counseling, ed. William Ratliff (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 2001).
21. Donald Woods Winnicott, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomenon. In Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis (New York: Basic Books, 1975).
22. This passage (Job 13:15) reads quite differently in other English translations. For example, the Jerusalem Bible translation [Job addressing God] reads "Let him kill me if he will; I have no other hope than to justify my conduct in his eyes." My colleague Gerald Janzen informs me that this passage is problematic in that the Hebrew to eyachel can be translated either "I will hope in him" or "I will have no hope." The Hebrew word for hope (trust in the King James Version) has the connotation of "trembling with anticipation." To me the King James Version best captures the spirit of Job's struggle with God.