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    Volwassewording as problematiek in pastorale konteks
    (University of the Free State, 2005) Bezuidenhout, Jacobus Philippus; Janse van Rensburg, Johan
    English: This study is a search for answers to five problem areas in connection with the pastor’ s pastorate, namely: • The necessity of a pastor’s Biblically-grounded pastoral anthropological approach with a view to a diaconiological epistemological pastorate. • The facilitation of a church member by the pastor.in the process of becoming a mature believer • The utilisation of a postmodern narrative therapy within a diaconiologic epistemological frame of reference is highly questionable and requires the construction of a Reformed-narrative pastoral approach. • The part the Holy Spirit plays in the pastoral process necessitate elucidation. • The relevance of the covenant in a Reformed-narrative pastoral therapy. This study points out the intrinsic distinctiveness between the psychological anthropological point of departure, the different pastoral models, man’s postmodernistic point of view and feminism. In the light of the church member’s process of growing in faith is it necessary to construct a Biblically-grounded pastoral anthropology. The study examines the phenomena psychological adulthood and faith adulthood. The praxis-theoretical implications in connection with facilitating the process of faith maturation were stressed in view of the roleplayers in the facilitation (especially the pastor). This includes the pastor’s education and equipment, his conversational approach, and the covenantal viewpoint. The study also points out the discrepancy in the pastor’ s approach when using postmodernistic narrative therapy methods within a diaconiological epistemological approach as he guides the church member in his/her process of faith maturation. The postmodernistic narrative pastoral therapy is evaluated deconstructively and then formulated reconstructively in a new outcome, namely a Reformed-narrative pastoral therapy within a diaconiological epistemology. In addition, the role of the covenant in the therapeutic approach is emphasised by means of pastoral markers as a guideline in the facilitation process. Throughout the study emphasis is laid on the trinitarian dimension (Holy Spirit, pastor and church member) in the conversational approach.