Musar-mbusa Counseling. Biblical Counseling for Hebrew-Bantu Counseling Educators

di Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi (Autore)

Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi, 2025

Professional counseling is younger than the art of counseling. Wisdom, the sine qua non of all counseling, is from the very beginning of the world (Proverbs 8:22-30). Counseling and guidance are already in play in the Garden of Eden. How can contemporary people benefit from the legacy of forms of counselling that do not presume sickness in the client? Musar is a Hebrew river of wisdom and Mbusa is a Bantu river (conceptually sharing general principles across many Bantu tribes presented as "Traditional Counseling"). This book puts the wisdom of God as found in the Bible at the heart of Biblical counseling. The goal is to empowerment of the client, starting from where that client is as is the case in Genesis 3 where God started from where Adam and Eve were. This writing is a Biblical Counseling starting point inviting people who seek guidance and are open to divine disciplines to come in. Ubuntu is a popular axiological umbrella in Sub-Sharan Africa. An appendix of Bantu words that are similar to Hebrew words is included to suggest further research in lingual-cultural linkages between the applied wisdom of these people groups. Contextualization and innovation are important tasks in the evaluation of the usefulness of counseling approaches. Among African Christian counselors, there is a need to look back in order to go forward. Looking back to the Hebrew origins of shared words and practices is key to understanding and wise innovations. In looking forward, the Non-Christian Chimbusa (Counselor/family representative) must understand that Biblical counseling presumes spiritual alignment and Counseling practices anchored by the knowledge of the power of God and the ways of God as revealed in the Bible. This book is also an invitation to think and reason together concerning the practice of helping people of all generations to move into their God-given destinies with discipline and transformational values. Non-African perspectives will be invaluable in illuminating blind spots and confirming the usefulness of such an approach in an era of great disillusionment with the status quo.

• Autore: Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi
• Editore: Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
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• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232616748

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