Martin Walton

Martin Walton
  • PhD
  • Professor Emeritus at Protestant Theological University

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Current institution
Protestant Theological University
Current position
  • Professor Emeritus

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Publications (25)
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Het artikel ‘Geestelijke verzorging in beeld – Onder het vergrootglas van de casestudy’ weerspiegelt de situatie halverwege de looptijd van het Nederlandse Casestudy’s Project Geestelijke Verzorging (CSP). Het project is intussen afgesloten, dat wil zeggen dat de verzameling van casestudy’s is beëindigd (maart 2021). Inmiddels zijn de beide auteurs...
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In this article, Wilko van Holten and Martin Walton continue the exchange with John Swinton regarding the understanding and usefulness of the "timelessness of God" (Swinton, 2016) in the context of dementia (see HSCC 8(1), "A Critical Appraisal of John Swinton's Theology of Time and Memory" by van Holten and Walton, 2020, and "A Rejoinder to van Ho...
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Attention for Meaning-Making Processes: Context and Practice of Spiritual Care in the Earthquake Area of Groningen In the North of the Netherlands spiritual caregivers have been employed to respond to the social and personal needs resulting from human induced earthquakes. In the Netherlands knowledge on spiritual care in times of disasters is limit...
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Clearly, chaplaincy is concerned with spirituality. But spirituality does not cover all that chaplaincy is about. In addition, there is critique on the clarity, usefulness and precision of the concept of spirituality. In order to express the richness of the profession and safeguard the particular characteristics of spirituality, this article propos...
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Wat draagt het christelijk geloof bij aan ons denken over zorg en zorgrelaties? Het oeuvre van de Schotse praktisch theoloog John Swinton kan gezien worden aIs een antwoord op deze vraag. In dit opstel wordt een eerste introductie geboden van zijn werk in het Nederlandse taalgebied. Het geloof biedt volgens deze auteur een counterstory in onze West...
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Het inzetten van eigen terminologie kan het domein van geestelijke zorg verhelderen, zeker in een omgeving van oncologische revalidatie. Deze case study uit het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-ziekenhuis in Amsterdam, in het kader van het lopende Case Studies Project, laat zien hoe wezenlijk het belang van spirituele zorg is en tot zijn recht komt in een ge...
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Deze bijdrage gaat in op de verhouding tussen onderzoeker en geestelijk verzorger. Promovendus Niels den Toom reflecteert hierop in het kader van zijn onderzoek naar de invloed van deelname aan case studies-onderzoek op de beroepspraktijk van geestelijk verzorgers. Het Case Studies Project zelf als casus beschouwd.
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De volgende casusbeschrijving uit het lopende Case Studies Project raakt aan een pijnlijk hoofdstuk uit onze nationale geschiedenis: de inzet van Nederlandse militairen in Nederlands-Indië. De casusbeschrijving laat zien welke specifieke en tijdsintensieve aandacht begeleiding van de (wegens leeftijd) snel krimpende groep ‘oude veteranen’ vraagt.
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Eind 2016 ging het Nederlandse Case Studies Project Geestelijke Verzorging (CSP) van start en is nu halverwege de looptijd. De belangstelling is groot. Meer dan vijftig geestelijk verzorgers doen mee, evenals een tiental onderzoekers van vier universiteiten. Een onderzoeksproject, waarin geestelijk verzorgers zichzelf en hun werk herkennen en ook d...
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In 2016, the Dutch Case Studies Project in Chaplaincy Care (CSP) was launched, an interdenominational and interuniversity empirical research project on case studies from different fields of chaplaincy. The article presents the methodological approach and the procedure of description and evaluation. The CSP works with research communities composed o...
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The recent surge of case studies in chaplaincy care raises challenges on the comparability of case studies and the degree to which they elucidate the relation between theory and practice. The Dutch Case Studies Project (CSP) addresses these and other issues by use of a set format and procedure and by evaluation in research communities of chaplains...
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The case study "Moral Injury" traces care provided by a chaplain in a mental health institution to a former military marksman named "Hans". Hans was in care at a specialized unit for military veterans with traumas. He sought contact with a chaplain "to set things right with God" and wanted the chaplain to perform a ritual to that end. The case stud...
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Chaplaincy and logotherapy seem related in several ways (conversational accompaniment, client centredness, confrontation of suffering, attention to meaning), but their practitioners seem little aware of each other. The authors clarify the different roles of chaplain and therapist by referring to Frankl’s distinction between salvation and healing of...
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There is an undeniable relationship between spirituality and health, and taking a spiritual history is a simple way to increase the focus on spiritual care. This is a pre/posttest intervention study. Questionnaires were administered before implementation of a spiritual assessment (pretest, n = 106), and afterward (posttest, n = 103). Despite a diff...
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Chaplaincy care has undergone a significant evolution in recent decades, and the end is not yet in sight. It has not always been a simple task to retain the essence of the profession during these changes. In order to gain insight into the core identity of spiritual care in the healthcare sector, we have analysed the journals of two leading professi...
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A previous article focused on an analysis of prominent conceptualizations of spirituality in health care. The encompassing character of those approaches was viewed as problematic because too little attention is paid to the distinctiveness and particularities of spiritual experience. This article argues that the criteria gleaned from the prior analy...
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Spirituality has become a popular term in chaplaincy and health care settings, but is defined in such a myriad of ways and in such broad terms that, as a term, it threatens to become unfit for clinical practice. Several prominent conceptualizations of spirituality are analyzed in an attempt to recover the distinctiveness of spirituality. An adequat...

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