Sacred is the Call: Supervisory Accountability and Responsibility in the Formation of Spiritual Directors

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  • Janet K. Ruffing

Abstract

Those who practice spiritual direction and form others as spiritual directors in the first world cannot do so without holding ourselves accountable to the ethical norms and behaviors commonly spelled out in other ministerial professions. At the same time, we want to leave God's Spirit free to animate, inspire, and guide others through the finely spirit-attuned persons who understand and can mediate the ways of God to others. There remains an ongoing tension in spiritual direction between professional competence and charismatic authority rooted in personal experience.

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Volume 30 Responsibility and Accountability in Formation and Supervision in Ministry - 2010

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