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Ain’t We Got Soul

Ain’t We Got Soul. Political, Religious, and Transcendent Features of Soul Care. Sessions. 1 st –Political, religious, and transcendent realms of soul care 2 nd –Healthy and sick souls 3 rd –Care of one’s soul. Premises. Embodied Relational Shaped by time Shaped by culture

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Ain’t We Got Soul

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  1. Ain’t We Got Soul Political, Religious, and Transcendent Features of Soul Care

  2. Sessions • 1st –Political, religious, and transcendent realms of soul care • 2nd –Healthy and sick souls • 3rd –Care of one’s soul

  3. Premises • Embodied • Relational • Shaped by time • Shaped by culture • Complex & varied

  4. Flourishing of the Soul • Individual and shared experiences of being alive and real. • Meaning and meaningfulness • Purpose and purposefulness • Immanence and transcendence • Agency and surrender Embodiment Relationality Time Culture Complexity

  5. Political Realm • Orders social relationships for the sake of human flourishing • Aim and function of the polis is justice • Justice is founded on recognition and treatment of the Other as person. • Justice is founded on repair of relationships of misrecognition (impersonalization & depersonalization)

  6. Political Realm • Virtue • Phronesis—practical wisdom • Acknowledge and preserve the dignity of other human beings • The labor of emotional intelligence in encountering the Other

  7. Political Realm • Ministry education • Student & supervisor • Traditions of care & justice • Contexts of care of souls

  8. Religious Realm • Foundation and purpose of religion—community & communion (fellowship) • Virtues—love and hospitality

  9. Religious Realm • For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation…. Love does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person…. Rather, it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for another’s sake. (Rilke)

  10. Transcendent Realm • Encounter with and reverence of the wholly Other • Virtue—compassion • Compassion requires the double movement of surpassing and surrendering.

  11. Summary Political Realm Aim—Justice Virtue—Phronesis Souls Transcendent Realm Aim—Encounter with Wholly Other Virtue—Compassion Religious Realm Aim—Community Virtues—Love and Hospitality

  12. Care of Souls Sick and Healthy Souls

  13. Soul Diagnosis • Caveats • Diagnosis involves both grasping and distorting the Other • Reductionism • Overlooking systemic contributions to sick & healthy souls • Diagnoses are culturally contingent • Diagnoses should be relational • Degrees of soul sickness (or health)

  14. Soul Sickness • The distortion of various psycho-social capacities, which result in the loss or attenuation of persons’ subjective and intersubjective sense of aliveness, meaningfulness, purposefulness, and belonging.

  15. Agency (subjective and intersubjective) Freedom Spontaneity Passion Authorship/Authenticity (vocation/avocation) Accountability Distortions of Agency Bondage/Compulsions/Obsessions/Addictions/Passivity Rigid structure & control of the future/fear and denial of the past Indifference/Killing off desire/Anhedonia Acquiescence/Submission (versus surrender)/Reactive or rebelliousness/False self Blame/Victim identity/Denial/Dissociation SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  16. Emotional Intelligence Recognition and appropriate articulation of one’s feelings Recognition and containment of the Other’s emotional experiences Repair of emotional dis-ruptions Distortions of Emotional Intelligence Lack of… Acting out one’s feelings Avoidance/Dismissal Rejection of self-reflection SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  17. Play Curiosity Openness to Novelty Imagination Humor Distortions of Play Incurious Boredom/Depression/Despair/Futility Just the facts (Freud)/Overly rational Rigidity Defense against vulnerability Fear of change/Nostalgia Fear of difference Fear of failure/Shame/Inadequacy SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  18. Reverence Irreverence Awe Distortions of Reverence Overly serious Overly cynical and skeptical (lack of hope) Resentment/bitterness Wishing SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  19. Mystery Acceptance of ambiguity and paradox Acceptance and use of ignorance Surrender to not-knowing Distortions of Mystery Certainty Fear of doubt & ambiguity Forms of subjugation SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  20. Intimacy Desire/Will for belongingness Acceptance of the paradox of likeness in difference and difference in likeness Desire and work for relational repair Capacity for solitude Distortions of Intimacy Isolation/Compulsive togetherness Identity politics Pseudo repairs SICK SOULS HEALTHY SOULS

  21. Categories of Diagnoses AGENCY REVERENCE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE INTIMACY MYSTERY PLAY

  22. Care for One’s Soul • Soul care and self care • Soul Care • Cultivating the capacities of reverence and awe • Possessing the capacity for self-reflective critique of one’s milieu • Withdrawal is for the sake of return

  23. Care for One’s Soul • Context—work/ministry • How is the social context conducive to cultivating souls? • How is my ministry enlivening?

  24. Care for One’s Soul • Political realm and phronesis—practical wisdom • Religious realm and love and hospitality • Transcendent realm and compassion

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