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Robert C. Dykstra

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Robert C. Dykstra


Born
The United States
Genre
Pastoral Care, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences


Robert C. Dykstra is the Charlotte W. Newcombe Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned both the M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees. A native of Minnesota, he is a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He served for a number of years as a minister, youth minister, hospital chaplain, and pastoral counselor. His academic interests include pastoral care and counseling, contemporary psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology, pastoral preaching, and the integration of biblical and theological precepts with contemporary research in the human sciences.

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Images of Pastoral Care: Cl...
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Images of Pastoral Care
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Losers, Loners, and Rebels:...
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Discovering a Sermon: Perso...
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The Faith and Friendships o...
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Finding Ourselves Lost: Min...
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Counseling Troubled Youth
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“Our identity is somehow found in not usually knowing who we are, in not always knowing what we are doing. Our identity is sometimes found, as Jesus himself professed, in its occasional loss.”
― Robert C. Dykstra, Images of Pastoral Care
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“The other conviction or intuition of the New Testament about healing is seen positively—that real healing is of the “spirit,” when spirit is understood to mean very much the same thing that we mean today when we speak of a whole person.”
― Robert C. Dykstra, Images of Pastoral Care
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“The Midwife KAREN R. HANSON1 (1996) My ministry as a [hospital] chaplain [in] a Level One trauma center is intense and challenging. Our department responds to all critical cases that come into the Emergency Department, as well as critical incidents and deaths that occur throughout the hospital. [This] work requires a solid sense of identity and purpose. For me, the image of minister, or chaplain, as spiritual”
― Robert C. Dykstra, Images of Pastoral Care
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