RT Article
T1 Shifting the Pastoral Theology Conversation on Moral Injury: The Personal Is Political for Soldiers and Veterans, Too
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 72
IS 6
SP 863
OP 880
A1 Tietje, Adam
A1 Morris, Joshua
LA English
PB Springer Science Business Media B. V.
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1872049605
AB Pastoral theological scholarship on moral injury has not yet fully metabolized the liberative trajectory of pastoral theological discourse. To date, the care of those who come home from war remains largely depoliticized. This article argues that the wounds of war are personal and political and that care requires attending to the political dimension. The first section of the article sets the current pastoral theology conversation around moral injury within the historical context of the field around the care of veterans and the depoliticized nature of the clinical literature. The second section of the article argues the liberative trajectory of the field provides not only a basis for a robustly political response but also sets of relevant conceptual categories and care resources for veterans. The third section takes up Ryan LaMothe’s concept of "unconventional warriorism" as a basis for reimagining the political agency of soldiers and veterans. The article concludes by sketching out a broad proposal for the integration of politics and care for veterans.
K1 Military chaplains
K1 Military moral injury
K1 Political Theology
K1 Spiritual Care
DO 10.1007/s11089-023-01059-x