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2687.1 Laying the Foundation: Contributing Pastoral ModelsThe narrative analysis and the ensuing strong threads detailed in theprevious chapter point to the development of a unique pastoral model specific tothe people and context under consideration in this extended reflection.Nonetheless, due acknowledgement must be given to those pastoral models thatmost pointedly influence the development of an appropriate model through theirinclusion of various of the outlined strong threads. Such pre-existing modelsarticulate a liberating goal and in their own way provide inspiration for thedevelopment of a pastoral model appropriate to this extended reflection.Furthermore, these models contain points of intersection one with another.7.1.1 The Wounded HealerThe notion of pastoral care as Wounded Healer is located within thatcontemporary paradoxical array of pastoral models that juxtapose seeminglycontradictory images into a pastoral metaphor that seeks to address the varied andseemingly conflicting array of responsibilities and expectations of the pastoralcarer. 631 Other such models include The Wise Fool, The Intimate Stranger andThe Ascetic Witness. 632The Wounded Healer was first articulated in 1979 by Catholic priestHenri Nouwen. It seeks to generate an incarnately-described point of connectionbetween the minister and the one who is pastorally served by seeing the world’swoundedness transcribed in the minister’s own heart. 633 Woundedness is mostparticularly understood in existentially-transcribed loneliness in which an allpervasivesense of social competition and rivalry creates isolation of one fromanother. 634 The minister who serves such isolated people seeks to address suchloneliness but is confronted by a coldness of heart and a church which hasbecome peripheral to the needs of a rapidly-changing world. 635 Thus, the ministershares with others in an isolation generated by such a world. As competition631 Dykstra, Robert. "Paradoxical Images of Care." In Images of Pastoral Care: ClassicReadings, edited by Robert Dykstra, 69-75. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2005), 69.632 ibid., 94-149.633 Nouwen, The Wounded Healer.See also,Nouwen, Henri. "The Wounded Healer." In Images of Pastoral Care: Classic Readings,edited by Robert Dykstra, 76-84. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2005).634 Nouwen, The Wounded Healer, 83.635 ibid., 85-87.