[Membroj] this chaplain not a homarano

[Ralph Dumain]

Psychospiritual care: a paradigm (shift) of care 
for the spirit in a non-religious context
Revd Dr Steve Nolan is Chaplain, The Princess Alice Hospice, Esher, Surrey.
http://www.eurochaplains.org/enhcc_library/nolan2006-1.pdf

Specimens:

(1)

Pattison counsels against the ‘temptation to try 
to develop a lowest common denominator 
 language 
that all participants can “speak” and agree upon 
a kind of moral Esperanto’ (2001:40). Instead, he 
argues ‘that chaplains who come from a 
distinctive and valuable religious tradition 
should think more carefully about what it is that 
they can bring into the fragmented world of 
generic spirituality’ (2001:44). For Pattison, 
religious traditions provide ‘lived performances 
of spirituality’ (2001:44) bringing real wisdom 
and integrity of character to situations of life and death.

(2)

Pattison seems clear that when cut off from its 
religious hinterland ‘spirituality’ is 
necessarily reduced to an Esperanto of the lowest common denominator.

(3)

Rather than taking what appears superficially 
common among the various spiritualities, Elkins 
describes what is profoundly common
in human experience. Put in terms of Pattison’s 
language metaphor, Elkins is less an Esperanto than a proto Indo-European.

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Poor Esperanto, to be sucked into the maw of this theological claptrap.

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