Traditions in emergency counselling
Rev. Andreas Mann
In 2013, I took part in a conference organised in Graz entitled "Cre-dition applied", which dealt with the question of how and where processes of faith influence our lives and actions. It was then that I first came into contact with the idea that faith - both in the religious and everyday profane sense - is also an internal process. The model for visualising this process has accompanied me ever since.
Since faith processes often play a role in the everyday practice of crisis intervention and emergency counselling, I suggested to the NCCR team of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) that Credition should be the theme of the next convention and that the meeting should take place in Graz. Our expectations were fulfilled to the highest degree, especially as it was possible to combine our own theological positions and individual professional experiences with the topic of the faith process.
A special gain was the visit to the "Landeswarnzentrale" of the Department of Civil Protection and National Defence at the Office of the Styrian Provincial Government.
Prof Hans-Ferdinand Angel
A temporally understood process of faith (credition) takes place in religious and secular contexts. In real life, these often flow together and in the practice of emergency counselling, processes of faith in both areas - and often together - come into play.
It was an extraordinarily impressive experience to discuss fundamental questions of Christian faith on the basis of the Model of Credition in the tension between traditional theological approaches and their process-orientated transformations.
