Healthcare Chaplaincy as Specialised Spiritual Care

The Christian Call for Healing in a Global Health Context

By (author) Simon Peng-Keller Translated by David Dolby

Book cover: Healthcare Chaplaincy as Specialised Spiritual Care

Extent: 202 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(March 2024)

ISBN: 9783525600313

4.84 x 8.07 inches

Price: $57.00

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Understanding Christian healthcare chaplaincy as specialised spiritual care.


Is healthcare chaplaincy a health profession? This book argues that it is. It is a plea for Christian healthcare chaplaincy to be practiced as a form of specialized spiritual care, and to be understood anew within the horizon of the Christian call for healing. Only in close cooperation with other healthcare professionals, it is argued, can healthcare chaplaincy fulfil its mission and promote encompassing and evidence-based care for patients and their relatives. And only by recentering on their spiritual resources, can Christian healthcare chaplains contribute in their own unique way to healing processes and to coping with illness, dying, and grief.

Dr. theol. Simon Peng-Keller ist Professor fĂ¼r Spiritual Care an der Universität ZĂ¼rich. Von 2016 bis 2020 war er Seelsorger im Kompetenzzentrum Palliative Care am Universitätsspital ZĂ¼rich. Er doziert als Gastprofessor fĂ¼r Theologie der Spiritualität an der Theologischen Hochschule Chur. DarĂ¼ber hinaus ist er zusammen mit seiner Frau als Exerzitienbegleiter im Lassalle-Haus, Bad Schönbrunn, und im Geistlichen Zentrum St. Peter tätig.

  • By (author) Simon Peng-Keller
  • Translated by David Dolby