Title:
Understanding the impact of church crises and conflicts on Korean immigrants’ resilience
Author:
Takhyun Cho
Thesis Advisor:
Kari A. O'Grady
Committee Member:
Joseph Stewart-Sicking
Committee Member:
Thomas E. Rodgerson
Committee Member:
L. Mickey Fenzel
Committee Member:
Stephen Fowl
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2018
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
Researchers have investigated what effective leadership is and how leaders manage their congregations before, during, and after church crises and conflicts, yet little literature has addressed what experiences church members have had and how they have managed their own emotional/social/spiritual struggles from church crises and conflicts. This study aimed to delineate the resilience process among Korean immigrant church members who experienced church crisis and conflict through in-depth, semistructured interviews employing heuristic research. Four final essences (responses to and struggles with church crisis and conflict; the journey from experiencing church crisis and conflict to having sense of purpose; spiritual growth; and the pervasiveness of love, compassion, and safety) and 20 subthemes were derived from the data and discussed through the literature in the field of (pastoral) counseling and pastoral care. These essences depict how Korean immigrants have promoted their personal and spiritual growth while they refined beliefs about their images of God and church and relationships with God and others, and how they psychologically or spiritually engaged in resilience processes. Implications for clinical and pastoral counseling and future research were discussed.
Degree:
Doctor of Philosophy
Level:
Doctoral
Discipline:
Pastoral Counseling
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Identifier:
ChoT-18