Edisto Press Also Presents Another Book by
 Tom Summers...


Released in 2000
Original Price: $14.95
Now Reduced to: $8.00

 


ISBN 0-9664713-0-X

 In its amazing history of more than eighty years, the clinical pastoral education movement has provided an abundance of contributions to theological education and pastoral care. In integrating his own personal journey with CPE's historical story, Hunkering Down is an autobiographical volume developed by a long-time southeastern clinical pastoral teacher and supervisor. Now retired, Tom Summers demonstrates a deep appreciation for how his early background and culture offered a strong influence on his vocational development. His decades of mental health ministry and teaching included a time span that reached from a former era of gigantic state mental hospitals to that of pastoral advocacy for social justice in the community. Shown throughout the book is the valuing that he holds for the possibilities of growth emerging from personal suffering. Along with ninety photographs in Hunkering Down, there are stories that exude features of passion, care and humor..


"I could hardly put this book down until I finished reading it."

-Wayne E. Oates, Ph.D., University of Louisville

"The author has woven an intricate and fascinating story... Readers will come away from this book enriched by countless insights from an insider in what he calls appropriately a 'priceless educational approach.'"

-Howard J. Clinebell, Ph.D., School of Theology at Claremont