| Abstract: | Once the post-modern account of individual and cultural identityas creative openness to change is re-construed in terms of aconstructivist rendering of the semiotic theory of culture,and once interdenominational and inter-faith hospital chaplaincyis interpreted on a model of cross-cultural communication whichagrees with this theory, chaplains can conceive of their abilityto fulfill their mission in offering understanding and helpto the client from other faith communities only by explicitlyinvoking the intervention of the Holy Spirit. The commentaryargues that Schneider-Harpprecht's all too generalized accountof that intervention leaves chaplains with no spiritual substancefor distinguishing between truely and only apparent pastoralhelpfulness. |
