James Newton Poling
Renowned Pastoral Care scholar named Visiting Professor at Claremont for Fall 2007 classes.

Noted practical theologian James Newton Poling has been named visiting professor at Claremont School of Theology for the Fall 2007 semester. Poling is a graduate of Claremont School of Theology, having studied pastoral care and counseling under Howard Clinebell. Poling is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

He will be teaching a class titled Power and Abuse (PC316/416) this fall. The class examines the dynamics of sexual assault and abuse, violence within families, and forms of violation of women's bodily integrity. It will attend to empirical and normative analysis of these issues; resources for theological reflection and pastoral practice; considered criteria for evaluation and engaging in effetive action for justice and care in sexual and familial relations.Class is held on Wednesday nights from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

In recent years he has been doing pastoral research in theology and counseling with a special focus on family and global violence. He is the author of many articles and books including The Abuse of Power: A Theological Problem (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991), Deliver Us From Evil: Resisting Racial and Gender Oppression. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996), and Render Unto God: Economic Vulnerability, Family Violence, and Pastoral Theology. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2002).