미학적 목회상담학의 가능성에 대한 연구

Abstract

Isn’t pastoral counseling aesthetical? For its whole process is intrinsically based on a weltanschauung of aesthetical ideas and attitudes. In this regards, the researchers try to define why pastoral counseling might be aesthetical. In particular, we focus on a point that pastoral counseling can be understood in a ground of interpretation. It is because interpretational tasks are the main procedure of pastoral counseling as well as the process of rapport. What we assert and introduce, for pastoral counseling as an interpretational task, is a term, appreciation comparing with Gadamerian concept of application and Ricoeurian description of appropriation. Furthermore, the researchers study how pastoral counseling can produce meaningful changes in the process of pastoral counseling by means of Cappsian term, reframing, which is also, we assert, aesthetical. For Capps argues aesthetical changes out of counselees’first and second order changes. And the researchers maintain that pastoral counselors ought to sustain a concept of beauty, that is, the manners of aesthetical praxis in their actual counseling sessions. What we mean by beauty is not beauty itself as expression of something pretty but a generative power of change, that is also interpreted as a Christian concept of repentance, the encounter of the Divine in this secular world of human agony.