CHAPLAINCY – A RESOURCE OF CHRISTIAN PRESENCE

Authors

  • Tom Scott MacMillan Cancer Relief

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v3i1.15

Keywords:

institution, listening, presence, prophetic, theological experiment, training

Abstract

This article is an extract of a lecture by the late Tom Scott presented at Heriot- Watt University in 1979. Twenty-one years hindsight shows the authors clear train of thought and while much in chaplaincy has moved forward there is much remains the same. Tom explores: the changes the individual needs to make moving from minister to chaplain, issues of training, the temptation to develop chaplaincy as a department, and the opportunity the Church has to use chaplaincy for theological experiment.

Author Biography

  • Tom Scott, MacMillan Cancer Relief

    Tom Scott served as a Church of Scotland parish minister in Bonnybridge, then as chaplain to Heriot Watt University. In 1979 he became Director of Strathcarron Hospice in Denny, and in 1992 became Director for Scotland and Northern Ireland for MacMillan Cancer Relief.

References

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CofS 1976 Deliverance’s of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Page 22.

EDWARDS D.L. 1973 The British Churches Turn to The Future. SCM

GREEN L. 1968 (Reference not available)

JENKINS D. 1975 The British – Their Identity and Religion. SCM

KANE. M. 1971 Secular experience and theological thinking. Paper presented to the World Council of Churches on Contextual or Dogmatic Theology.

WICKHAM E.R. 1973 The implications of having priests in secular employment. The Audenshaw Documents, No. 22.

Published

2013-06-11

How to Cite

Scott, T. (2013). CHAPLAINCY – A RESOURCE OF CHRISTIAN PRESENCE. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 3(1), 15-19. https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v3i1.15