http://soc.tenwekhospitalcollege.ac.ke:8181/jspui/handle/tenwek/1 School of Chaplaincy 2026-02-04T05:23:10Z http://soc.tenwekhospitalcollege.ac.ke:8181/jspui/handle/tenwek/20 Title: Your new job Authors: Garner, Bob Description: podcast 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://soc.tenwekhospitalcollege.ac.ke:8181/jspui/handle/tenwek/19 Title: The Role of the Chaplain in the Strategic Facilitation of Multi-Faith Sacred Space to Alleviate the Suffering Associated With Death and Dying Authors: Rusted, Giselle Abstract: The aim of the research was to observe and scrutinise how chaplains go about facilitating a sacred space when requested, in the last days and hours of death. It sought to identify the context in which chaplains are compelled to facilitate religious and spiritual rituals and what perspectives participants have of chaplains when creating a sacred space within non-orthodox, clinical spaces. It also sought to understand the added value of chaplaincy in relation to high quatlity patient care and who was best placed to faciliate a sacred space at the point of death and dying. The research used a cross sectional design study with purposive sampling and carried out ten one to one interviews with hospital staff, who had experienced chaplaincy. They were selected from different areas of the hospital. Additionally, the research used the participant observations of the researcher who is a chaplin. Using a thematic annalysis process to identify emerging themes, the research was able to achieve an indepth understanding of the contributions made by chaplains to patient and family experience, at the point of death and dying. The research concluded that death is perceived as a significant rite of passage which requires marking; subject to a variety of expectations and that those best placed to deliver this service are chaplains, perceived as practioners in this field. The research indicated that chaplains care and are compassionate, courageous, competent and committed to providing high quality patient and family experience. Recommending that there should be greater collaboration between clinicians and chaplaincy because chaplains use their experience and knowledge when they are alongside patients and family, normalising death and contribute to a good death. 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z http://soc.tenwekhospitalcollege.ac.ke:8181/jspui/handle/tenwek/3 Title: Orality as the Key to Understanding Apostolic Proclamation in the Epistles Authors: Thomas, Winger Abstract: Redaction criticism and its modern successors in the literary field, while they give more credit to the text and the author, have at the same time mired the academy again into a modern mud of sources and manipulation. There is promise in certain new paths—rhetoric, reader-response, speech-act theory, methods which we will note briefly in the first chapter. But finally we must move out of the "academy" and into the church. For the orality of Scripture is not just about its origin but also about its use and purpose. The Scriptures are a liturgical piece. They belong not on the desk but in the lectern. They were written to be proclaimed. Thus, in a sense, this is a "canonical" study—yet undertaken with more ecclesiastical seriousness than that fledgling field commonly musters. The Bible is a church book. St. Paul proclaims that it is "useful" for many pastoral ends, all of which are taken up by "the man of God" (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Such considerations raise many questions. How were the Scriptures produced, published, disseminated, used? If they were spoken into script in order that the voice might again speak them into the ear, how might this recognition affect our method of interpretation? Do they indeed mean or function differently when they are heard? Might there soon be a method known as "oral criticism"? Or would it be preposterously self-contradictory to turn the results of oral research into another method to be wielded in the scholar's silent study? What impact will these results have on the valuation of the Scriptures and their reading in the liturgy? What is the purpose of this reading in an age when everyone can read the Scriptures at home? How does the living voice of the Scriptures relate to the institution and mandate of the Office of the Holy Ministry? These persistent questions, we believe, give urgency to the present study. 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z