In Pastoral Intelligence: Why Your Emotional Health is the Key to Your Church’s Health , Maurice Graham has shared not only from his lifetime of ministry, but what he has learned from two decades of counseling clergy. Although Graham incorporates the work of emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the concept of Pastoral Intelligence adds theological intelligence or one’s relationship with God to the mix. The first part of the book, Graham describes the Transforming Self Triangle. He shares not only the results of his research related to clergy experience that inform this model, but examples of how this process has been used in his work with clergy. He builds this personal development model on the work of the Holy Spirit in the clergy person’s life. From the theological perspective, he notes, “Ministers have to understand that God is always at work in the background. The invisible God is made visible in Christ as rede...
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