Some aspects of clergy divorce in the parochial ministry of the Episcopal Church

Arthur E Johnson

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Some aspects of clergy divorce in the parochial ministry of the Episcopal Church

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Arthur E Johnson. Some Aspects of Clergy Divorce In the Parochial Ministry of the Episcopal Church. University of the South School of Theology. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3d728c63-a78e-4993-bd4e-80c6f0cff834?locale=en.

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A. E. Johnson. Some aspects of clergy divorce in the parochial ministry of the Episcopal Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3d728c63-a78e-4993-bd4e-80c6f0cff834?locale=en

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Arthur E Johnson. Some Aspects of Clergy Divorce In the Parochial Ministry of the Episcopal Church. University of the South School of Theology. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/3d728c63-a78e-4993-bd4e-80c6f0cff834?locale=en.

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Clergy experience marriage to the 'parish' and to their spouse, a concept supported by Canon Law, depth psychology, and system theory. Divorced clergy required to leave their parishes experience a second devastating loss, creating intense shame. Ten clergy who remained in their parishes for three years, postdivorce, in two-hour interviews, report significant mutuality in dealing with the shame of divorce and with the loss both priest and parish suffer in clerical divorce. Recommendations: 1) case by case treatment; 2) pastoral counselor (AAPC) always involved with divorcing clergy to assist priest and confer with priest and Bishop jointly; 3) remarriage requires the same treatment.

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