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Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
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Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct

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Sexual misconduct by clergy is a devastating issue that reaches across all denominations, damaging the credibility of the church in its wake. The media regularly reports on the moral failure of leaders and abuse at the hands of those who are supposed to be trustworthy.

Betrayal of Trust focuses on a common scenario of abuse--sexual involvement between a male pastor and a female congregant--and offers practical solutions on how to respond to and prevent this betrayal of trust.

This book presents methods that will help churches respond sensitively to victims and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse from taking place. For clergy who may be at risk for this behavior, it offers help in establishing appropriate boundaries.

This second edition includes a new chapter that offers help for the wandering pastor and a risk-determination questionnaire for pastors who may become abusers.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 1, 2001
ISBN9781441215376
Betrayal of Trust: Confronting and Preventing Clergy Sexual Misconduct
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Stanley J. Grenz

Stanley J. Grenz (1950-2005) taught theology at Carey/Regent College for many years. He wrote twenty-five books, including Rediscovering the Triune God: The Trinity in Contemporary Theology, The Social God and the Relational Self: A Trinitarian Theology of the Imago Dei, The Moral Quest: Foundations of Christian Ethics, Revisioning Evangelical Theology: A Fresh Agenda for the 21st Century and The Millennial Maze: Sorting Out Evangelical Options (IVP).

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    This sobering book takes a clear, hard look at cases in which clergy become inappropriately romantically/sexually involved with people under their care; the authors examine the reasons why this happens, the reasons why even seemingly innocuous involvement is a serious problem and a breach of professional and clergy ethics, and give some guidelines to both preventing these problems as well as dealing with the aftermath in the pastor's life, in the pastor's family, in the other party's life, and in the congregation and community.

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