File 2109 - Handouts for year-long field-based course, 1976-1977

2.3 cm of textual records

File consists of a bound volume of typed and photocopied handouts (including a course syllabus and class schedule) for a field-based course called Ministry in Non-Religious Institutions. This is volume I of II, of which handouts 1-21 are included. There are two articles by Nouwen in this volume, "Case Recording in Pastoral Counseling" and "Training for the campus ministry".
The remaining handouts include:

• "A Flower Does Not Talk".
  -"Jim: A Case Study".
  -Michael Novak's "Experience of Nothingness".
• extracts from John Fowles' "The Magus".
  -"Life of the Poor" from The Christian Herald 1968.
  -excerpts from Erick H. Erikson's "Identity and the Life Cycle".
  -Robert Paul Wolff's "The College as Rat Race".
  -Amitai Etzioni's "Human beings are not very easy to change after all".
  -article from Chicago Tribune (3 October 1975),"Philippe Petit: I will spirit at a much loftier level".
  -PAC: People Acting for Change Newsletter, Vol 1 No 1 September 1975.
  -excerpts from Menninger, Meyman and Pruyser's "The Vital Balance".
  -Jerome H Skolnick's "A sketch of the policeman's 'working personality'" and "Police attitudes toward criminal law".

A copy of "Case Recording in Pastoral Counseling" can be found in Published Works series, box 294, item 1565.
"Training for the campus ministry" was later published as part of the book "Intimacy" in 1981. See Published works series, item 2106.

Title based on contents of the file.

Revised by L Joson, 13 November 2018