Autorentext

Ryan LaMothe is professor of pastoral care and counseling at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. Past president of the Society for Pastoral Theology, he has authored numerous books and articles in the areas of political pastoral theology, psychoanalysis, and psychology of religion. Some of his recent monographs are Care of Persons, Care of Polis (Cascade, 2017), A Radical Political Theology for the Anthropocene (Cascade, 2021), The Coming of Jesus and the Anthropocene (Cascade, 2024), Pastoral Care in the Anthropocene Age (2022), and A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age (2024).

Klappentext

In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift. This is one such book. LaMothe develops a political pastoral theology that is used to examine critically political, economic, and societal structures and practices. In the first part of the book, LaMothe argues that care and pastoral care are political concepts, which, along with the notion of justice, can be used as a hermeneutical framework to assess macropolitical and macroeconomic realities. Included in this section is the notion of civil and redemptive discourse, necessary for the survival and flourishing of persons and polis. The last section of the book examines U.S. Empire, capitalism, class, classism, and other pressing political issues using the hermeneutical lens of care.