TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sylvester Ajunwa
PY  - 2015
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2196-0615
SN  - 9783653054552
TI  - HI-Touch Pastoral Approach in the 21st Century
T2  - A response to the problem of insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05455-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049150
N2  - «Human Integrated Touch» (HI-Touch) is a pastoral care approach that could be a response to the lingering problems of Christianity marred by an insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria. Arguing for an integrated approach to humans and the human condition, the study presents the HI-Touch as a form of pastoral care that is not only based on religious affiliations, but also on human authentic values vis-a vis an authentic Christian faith in a dynamic society. The growth of atheism in modern societies is not only a conceptual denial of the existence of God but an elimination of God from the affairs of man. The right way to overcome this is through a new order of human relations that calls for love, mutual respect, hospitality, empathy, communion, and dialogue with one another in all human situations.
KW  - pastoral care, authentic Christian faith, pastoral approach, existential human conditions
LA  - English
ER  -