Fowler Gene
Irondequoit Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY, USA.
J Pastoral Care Counsel. 2012 Mar;66(1):5.
This article addresses Tom Long's (2009) criticism that a traditional pastoral care approach to funerals is responsible for significant distortions in contemporary Christian funeral practices in the United States. The article will show that his criticism should be affirmed but that his solution for a contemporary understanding of pastoral care and funerals is not adequate. A critique and reinterpretation of pastoral care and funerals will show that Long's reform of Christian funerals needs to incorporate a contemporary understanding of caring for the bereaved in funerals.
本文回应了汤姆·朗（2009年）的批评，即传统的葬礼牧养关怀方式导致了美国当代基督教葬礼实践的严重扭曲。本文将表明，他的批评应该得到肯定，但他对当代牧养关怀和葬礼的理解并不充分。对牧养关怀和葬礼的批判与重新诠释将表明，朗对基督教葬礼的改革需要纳入对葬礼中关怀丧亲者的当代理解。
