Chaplains and science

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 29-41

  Brown, W Noel ^a  

^a The Orere Source   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaplaincy; Clinical pastoral education; Pastoral care; Science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLERGY; COUNSELING; CREATIVITY; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RELIGION; STANDARD;

CHAPLAINCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CLERGY; CREATIVENESS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PASTORAL CARE; RELIGION AND SCIENCE;

EID: 1542572251     PISSN: 08854726     EISSN: 15286916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J080v12n01_04     Document Type: Article

References (24)

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9. De Chardin, Essays on Philosophical Subjects p. 38.
10. This is the reason many of us are concerned that both Christian and Muslim fundamentalists could have the same limiting, even fatal effect in education and science today. The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan had no place for science in their madrassas. The Christian fundamentalists in the US oppose the teaching of evolution.
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12. Wilbur accepts the basic structure of the scientific method as it was first suggested by Thomas Kuhn (1970) in The Structure of the Scientific Revolution. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Wilbur describes how the same processes can be found in all three domains of human enquiry: the world we see with our senses; the world see with our inner eye; and, the world of that which does the seeing-the Self. In each of these domains, argues Wilbur, we do what Kuhn has identified in the domain of the senses. First, we follow an instrumental injunction or instruction. Second, we perceive a certain state of affairs. Third, we compare our findings with those of others, the communal confirmation.
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17. Kuhn A pilot study. Chaplaincy Today
18. Wilber A pilot study. Chaplaincy Today pp. 85ff.
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21. Some years after her work with schizophrenics, two seminarians from the University of Chicago Divinity School, Glenn Davidson and Daniel Davis crossed the street to get help for a term paper they were working on. They wanted to talk with someone who was dying, and approached Kubler-Ross, then at the University of Chicago Hospitals. She helped them find a patient, and it was while working with them and in subsequent seminars that she began to wonder if there was any pattern or patterns in the way people did their dying. She described her work with schizophrenics as being the precursor to the model she devised for her understanding of the grief process, in a continuing education seminar for clergy at the University of Michigan Medical Center in the spring of 1974.
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