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This paper reviews Carrie Doehring's three books and analyzes what Doehring's theological tenets are. As one of the representative feminist pastoral theologians in America, Doehring's pastoral theology embodies the importance of trauma, relationship, power, and spirituality on her feminist pastoral theology. In her first book,Internal Traumatization, she interviewed some women about how their childhood trauma impacted their representation of God. Then Doehring found out that women did not have an angry or distorted image of God even though they had traumatic experiences. Therefore, Doehring concluded that severe traumatic experiences could impact one's representation of God, but did not in most cases because their trauma was not severe enough to impact them. Her second book, Taking Care: Monitoring Power Dynamics and Relational Boundaries in Pastoral Care and Counseling articulates the importance of relationship, power, and spirituality for pastoral care and counseling. These theological topics are also from her personal experience and they are well weaved into her academic argument. Therefore, from this book she is able to integrate the importance of trauma, its impact on relational dynamic, and the power of God's grace for her. The third book, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach articulates the importance of postmodern approaches with emphasis on the narrative pastoral theology, contextual pastoral theology, cross disciplinary pastoral theology, and pragmatic pastoral theology. Utilizing all four postmodern approaches, she is able to envision how one can develop a pastoral care plan. After reviewing her main publications, I provided arguments between Doehring's works and Korean feminist pastoral theology in relation to analyzing her work and how one can integrate her work into Korean pastoral care situations. Finally, I concluded the article with suggestions for further study and limitation.
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Carrie Doehring, Trauma, Representation of God, Postmodern Approach, Feminist Pastoral Theology
