Exploring Hope

Exploring Hope

Author: Andrés Kozel

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-08-13

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1835497381

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Focusing on hope rather than challenges, this edited collection presents a powerful evocation of ongoing opportunities for building a better future in the Global South and beyond.


Exploring Hope in Spiritual Care

Exploring Hope in Spiritual Care

Author: Laura Shay

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2018-12-21

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1784509876

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Hope is a central topic in spiritual care. This short book explores what hope can mean for patients who are at the end of life, beyond hoping that a treatment will be effective. It suggests ways in which creative spiritual care can enable patients and those who care for them to develop different kinds of hope and move past despair. The author identifies four dimensions of hope and suggests ways in they can be nurtured and cultivated through theological reflection, connectivity, meditation and the arts. These dimensions of hope provide a framework for thorough spiritual assessment and for the development of a plan of care. In turn, being prepared for death removes feelings of hopelessness and despair. This book will inspire new ways to feed the human spirit when a cure is no longer an option.


Blue Hope

Blue Hope

Author: Sylvia A. Earle

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1426213956

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Dazzling photographs combine with inspiring insights from international ocean icon Sylvia Earle and other notable ocean advocates, paying a poignant tribute to the beauty and magic of the ocean and shedding light on its abundant gifts to the planet. This lyrical ode to the ocean marries the insights and inspiration of ocean advocate Sylvia Earle, and other experts and celebrities, with the world's most stunning photographs of beaches, coral reefs, and underwater life. All combine to express Earle's passionate message: Life depends on the ocean, and to save it we must love it. In seven essays, she recounts the milestones of a life spent pioneering and protecting the ocean. Supporting facts and maps bolster this book's clear and hopeful message: We can all play a role in keeping the heart of our planet alive.


Objects of Hope

Objects of Hope

Author: Steven H. Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1134898940

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Despite the importance of the concept of hope in human affairs, psychoanalysts have long had difficulty accepting responsibility for the manner in which their various interpretive orientations and explanations of therapeutic action express their own hopes for their patients. In Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis, Steven Cooper remedies this longstanding lacuna in the literature, and, in the process, provides a thorough comparative analysis of contemporary psychoanalytic models with respect to issues of hope and hopefulness. Cooper's task is challenging, given that the most hopeful aspects of human growth frequently entail acceptance of the destructive elements of our inner lives. The analysis of hope, then, implicates what Cooper sees as a central dialectic tension in psychoanalysis: that between psychic possibility and psychic limit. He argues that analysts have historically had difficulty integrating the concept of limit into a treatment modality so dedicated to the creation and augmentation of psychic possibility. And yet, it is only by accepting the realm of limit as a necessary counterpoise to the realm of possibility and clinically embracing the tension between the two realms that analysts can further their understanding of therapeutic process in the interest of better treatment outcomes. Cooper persuasively demonstrates how each psychoanalytic theory provides its own logic of hope; this logic, in turn, translates into a distinctive sense of what the analyst may hope for the patient, and what the patient is encouraged to hope for himself or herself. Objects of Hope brings ranging scholarship and refreshing candor to bear on the knotty issue of what can and cannot be achieved in the course of psychoanalytic therapy. It will be valued not only as an exemplary exercise in comparative psychoanalysis, but also as a thoughtful, original effort to place the vital issue of hope at the center of clinical concern.


Christianity Explored

Christianity Explored

Author: Rico Tice

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781904889335

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Also included is a CD-ROM featuring written transcripts of the talks for course leaders who want to deliver the talks 'live'.


Worship and the World to Come

Worship and the World to Come

Author: Glenn Packiam

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2020-07-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0830849327

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How is our Christian hope both expressed and experienced in contemporary worship? In this Dynamics of Christian Worship volume, pastor, theologian, and songwriter Glenn Packiam explores what Christians sing about when they sing about hope and what kind of hope they experience when they worship together.


Theories of Hope

Theories of Hope

Author: Rochelle M. Green

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1498563635

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Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience explores the nature of hope from varied and diverse perspectives. This volume includes chapters examining hope within contexts of social and political philosophy, policy, and struggle from both deeply theoretical and practical approaches.


The Paradox of Hope

The Paradox of Hope

Author: Cheryl Mattingly

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-12-02

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0520948238

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Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.


Light in the Darkness

Light in the Darkness

Author: Peter Sills

Publisher: Sacristy Press

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1789591007

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An exploration of Christian hope for today, taking to heart the petition in the Lord's Prayer that the Kingdom shall come on earth as it is in heaven. Hope is not just for the world to come, but also for the here-and-now.


Active Hope (revised)

Active Hope (revised)

Author: Joanna Macy

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2022-06-22

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1608687112

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The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we’re in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.