{"product_id":"empowering-couples-duane-r-bidwell-9780800663421","title":"Empowering Couples: A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eCouples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. Critically integrating desert spiritual theology with empirical data about successful marriages, Bidwell advocates for mutuality and partnership within covenanted relationships, which allows partners to create an alliance strong enough to resist the forces that threaten relationshipsespecially the negative influences of criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and withdrawal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePastors who adopt the approach outlined in the text will \"travel lightly\" in terms of pastoral power, decentering themselves so that couples can identify and build on their unique strengths and relationship with the divine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duane R. Bidwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080066342X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800663421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augsburg Fortress Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Duane R. Bidwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947163058431,"sku":"9780800663421","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_837952ba-36d9-4614-914f-6fddd1382d01.jpg?v=1681517092","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empowering-couples-duane-r-bidwell-9780800663421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}