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Author: Donald Capps

Donald Capps is Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written many books, including Jesus the Village Psychiatrist.

The Child's Song 
The Religious Abuse of Children
By Donald Capps
Theological ideas and biblical injunctions have frequently been employed to legitimate the physical abuse of children. Some theological ideas are inherently abusive because they create fear in a child's mind, causing a child to feel alone, odd, and o...
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The Decades of Life 
A Guide to Human Development
By Donald Capps
In groundbreaking fashion Donald Capps builds on Erik Erikson's work on the eight stages of life by focusing on the decades of life. This important modification allows developmental theory to be applied to the way people discuss life stages--in ten-y...
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By Donald Capps, Allan Hugh Cole, Jr., Robert C. Dykstra
Drawing on research and case studies, three pastoral care experts argue that one of the primary contexts in which the faith formation of teenage boys takes place is in their relationships with other adolescent males. Written by the authors of Losers,...
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By Donald Capps
All of the Gospels and the whole of Christian tradition depict Jesus as a miraculous healer who can cure blindness, leprosy, hemorrhages, and a host of other maladies. But how did Jesus actually heal? In this fascinating book, Donald Capps argues tha...
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Losers, Loners, and Rebels 
The Spiritual Struggles of Boys
By Donald Capps, Allan Hugh Cole, Jr., Robert C. Dykstra
The early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one's whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates the in...
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The Poet's Gift 
Toward the Renewal of Pastoral Care
By Donald Capps
Donald Capps draws upon the poetry of William Stafford and Denise Levertov to show how poetry can benefit the field of pastoral care. He argues that poetry focuses on the immediate experience and attends to life itself, whereas theology and ethics fo...
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