Honorary Associate Professor Neil Pembroke
Honorary Associate Professor
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Neil Pembroke's research interests include: pastoral care in worship and preaching; philosophy and theology in dialogue on issues in pastoral counselling; theology and healthcare; and processes for developing personal and spiritual maturity.
Associate Professor Pembroke holds a B.Eng (Agric.) [D.D.I.A.E.] B.Th (B.C.T.), BA (Hons) (Qld), PhD (Edin), and is a Lecturer in Studies in Religion.
His teaching interests include: Jung and Human Spirituality; Religion and Health; Mysticism; Psychology of Religion; and Religion and the Psychotherapies.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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| Power II You: Freedom and Trust in Organizational Leadership | 2020 |
Books
Pembroke, Neil (2013). Divine therapeia and the sermon: theocentric therapeutic preaching. Eugene, OR. USA: Pickwick Publications.
Pembroke, Neil (2010). Pastoral care in worship: Liturgy and psychology in dialogue. London, U.K.: T&T Clark International.
Pembroke, Neil (2007). Moving toward spiritual maturity: Psychological, contemplative, and moral challenges in Christian living. Binghamton, N.Y., U.S.A.: Haworth Pastoral Press. doi: 10.4324/9780203051757
Pembroke, N. (2006). Renewing Pastoral Practice: Trinitarian Perspectives on Pastoral Care and Counselling. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited. doi: 10.4324/9781315605364
Pembroke, N. (2004). Working relationships : Spirituality in human service and organisational life. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Pembroke, Neil (2002). The art of listening: Dialogue, shame, and pastoral care. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans.
Book Chapters
Pembroke, Neil and Reddicliffe, Raymond (2020). The chaplain and organizational spirituality of church-sponsored healthcare institutions. Chaplaincy and the soul of health and social care: fostering spiritual wellbeing in emerging paradigms of care. (pp. 204-216) edited by Ewan Kelly and John Swinton. London, United Kingdom: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Pembroke, Neil (2017). An Ubuntu-inspired Approach to Organisational Spirituality. Practicing Ubuntu: Practical Theological Perspectives on Injustice, Personhood, and Human Dignity. (pp. 227-238) edited by J. Dreyer, Y. Dreyer, E. Foley and M. Nel. Berlin, Germany: LIT-Verlag.
Pembroke, Neil (2015). Immigration, identity renegotiation, and anonymous faith. Complex identities in a shifting world: practical theological perspectives. (pp. 243-254) edited by Pamela Couture, Robert Mager, Pamela McCarroll and Natalie Wigg-Stevenson. Zurich, Switzerland: LIT Verlag.
Pembroke, Neil (2013). Charm in ministry: The Union of Agape and Eros in pastoral work. City of desires - A place for God?:practical theological perspectives. (pp. 185-193) edited by R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Rein Brouwer and Bonnie Miller-McLemore. Zurich: Lit Verlag.
Pembroke, Neil (2012). Healthcare organizations: corporate spirituality. Oxford textbook of spirituality in healthcare. (pp. 391-396) edited by Mark Cobb, Christina M. Puchalski and Bruce Rumbold. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Pembroke, Neil (2012). A critical analysis of three christian correlational approaches to spiritual experience. Handbook on Spirituality: Belief Systems, Societal Impact and Roles in Coping. (pp. 131-148) New York, NY, United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Therapy for shame-based perfectionism. Psychology of Neuroticism and Shame. (pp. 183-195) New York NY United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Psychology of empathy in a medical context. Psychology of empathy. (pp. 257-265) edited by Danielle J. Scapaletti. Hauppauge, NY, United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Pembroke, Neil (2009). Spiritual care by physicians: Maintaining the integrity of religion and finding an appropriate form. Secularization Theories: Religious Identity and Practical Theology: Developing International Practical Theology for the 21st Century. (pp. 343-349) edited by Chris Hermans, Maureen Junker-Kenny, Richard Osmer, Friedrich Schweitzer and Hans-Georg Ziebertz. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Pembroke, Neil (1992). Anonymous faith and the psychology of identity. Christian Perspectives on Human Development. (pp. 77-88) Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
Journal Articles
Pembroke, Neil (2024). Pastoral care from the pulpit: preaching as therapy for belief sickness. Practical Theology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/1756073X.2024.2397192
Pembroke, Neil (2021). A Spirit-Word-Community hermeneutic for the ‘preaching as reimagination’ approach. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 77 (2) a6581. doi: 10.4102/hts.v77i2.6581
Pembroke, Neil F. (2019). A case of therapeutic preaching done well: Theological diagnostics in Von Balthasar’s sermon, ‘Joy in the Midst of Anxiety’. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 75 (4) a5393. doi: 10.4102/hts.v75i4.5393
Pembroke, Neil (2019). Empathic and compassionate healthcare as a Christian spiritual practice. Practical Theology, 12 (2), 133-146. doi: 10.1080/1756073X.2019.1586343
Pembroke, Neil (2019). Participation as a Christian ethic: Wojtyla's phenomenology of subject-in-community, Ubuntu, and the Trinity. Religions, 10 (1) 57, 57. doi: 10.3390/rel10010057
Pembroke, Neil (2018). Intellectuals and the Decline of Religion: Essays and Reviews. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (3), 524-524. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12507
Pembroke, Neil, Coyle, Suzanne, Gear, Janet, Gubi, Peter, Kelly, Ewan, Louw, Daniel, McMillan, Lex, Niven, Alan, Thierfelder, Constanze, Schmidt, William and van den Berg, Jan-Albert (2018). Toward a structured, tri-domain model of companioning in Christian formation by pastoral agents in a congregational setting: a preliminary report on an international research project. Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, 72 (2), 104-115. doi: 10.1177/1542305018765659
Pembroke, Neil (2017). Artistry in Jesus’ parables and in preaching on them. Practical Theology, 11 (2), 127-140. doi: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1415576
Pembroke, Neil (2016). Ironic Imagination and Luther’s Mystical Bridal Imagery. Studies in Spirituality, 26, 249-262. doi: 10.2143/SIS.26.0.3180810
Pembroke, Neil (2016). Contributions from Christian ethics and Buddhist philosophy to the management of compassion fatigue in nurses. Nursing and Health Sciences, 18 (1), 120-124. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12252
Pembroke, Neil (2015). Correlational theology in the pulpit. Pacifica, 28 (3), 272-289. doi: 10.1177/1030570X16688029
Pembroke, Neil (2015). Two spiritualities of self-emptying: Weil’s ‘Decreation’ and Merton’s Emptying Out the False Self. Studies in Spirituality, 25, 267-278. doi: 10.2143/SIS.25.0.3112896
Pembroke, Neil (2015). Compassionate care by clinicians: insights from the Judeo-Christian and Buddhist traditions. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, 25 (1), 21-24.
Pembroke, Neil (2013). Trust and moral commitment in co-operative business: a covenantal perspective. Practical Theology, 6 (3), 332-347. doi: 10.1179/1756073X13Z.00000000019
Pembroke, Neil (2013). Theocentric therapeutic preaching: an analogical approach. International Journal of Practical Theology, 17 (2), 314-335. doi: 10.1515/ijpt-2013-0019
Pembroke, Neil (2013). Young Australian Christians reading Dawkins and Hitchens: A qualitative study. Theology, 116 (3), 177-186. doi: 10.1177/0040571X12472597
Pembroke, Neil (2012). Theocentric therapeutic preaching: a sample sermon with commentary. Practical Theology, 5 (3), 237-258. doi: 10.1558/prth.v5i3.237
Pembroke, Neil (2012). Pastoral care for shame-based perfectionism. Pastoral Psychology, 61 (2), 245-258. doi: 10.1007/s11089-011-0414-z
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Sacred love negotiations: A qualitative approach to equality and mutuality, and negotiating around needs in marriage and family life in the experience of Australian mainline Christians. International Journal of Practical Theology, 15 (2), 149-172. doi: 10.1515/IJPT.2011.032
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Equal regard, just love, and family fairness: The theories in practice. Practical Theology, 4 (2), 151-164. doi: 10.1558/prth.v4i2.151
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Outsiders and insiders: personal reflections on methodology in Studies in Religion at The University of Queensland, 1986-2010. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics , V (2), 123-126.
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Space in the Trinity and in pastoral care. The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, 65 (2), 3.1-3.10. doi: 10.1177/154230501106500203
Pembroke, Neil (2011). Beyond blue: The role of ironic imagination in overcoming depression. Journal of Pastoral Theology, 21 (1), 4.1-4.9. doi: 10.1179/jpt.2011.21.1.004
Pembroke, Neil (2010). Human dimension in medical care: Insights from Buber and Marcel. Southern Medical Journal, 103 (12), 1210-1213. doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181efb3bc
Pembroke, Neil (2010). Two Christian spiritualities in suffering: Biblical lament and Weil's consent. Studies in Spirituality, 20, 1-16. doi: 10.2143/SIS.20.0.2061142
Pembroke, Neil (2010). From tourist to pilgrim: Individualization, christianization and the sacraments. Worship, 84 (5), 403-419.
Pembroke, Neil (2009). Witnessing to hope in the christian community through irony. Pastoral Psychology, 58 (4), 433-443. doi: 10.1007/s11089-008-0192-4
Pembroke, Neil (2009). Partnership in the Workplace: Covenant and Management-Labour Relations. International Journal of Practical Theology, 12 (2), 242-255. doi: 10.1515/IJPT.2008.11
Pembroke, Neil (2009). Life-threatening illness, hope, and spiritual meaning-making: Buddhist and Christian perspectives. Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, 19 (1), 27-31.
Pembroke, Neil Francis (2008). Appropriate spiritual care by physicians: A theological perspective. Journal of Religion and Health, 47 (4), 549-559. doi: 10.1007/s10943-008-9183-0
Pembroke, Neil F. and Pembroke, Janelle J. (2008). The spirituality of presence in midwifery care. Midwifery, 24 (3), 321-327. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2006.10.004
Pembroke, Neil (2008). Conjugal loss and ambivalent feelings: A theological reflection and a pastoral sermon. Practical Theology, 1 (2), 181-193. doi: 10.1558/prth.v1i2.181
Pembroke, N. (2008). Narratives of Silence: Availability in a Spirituality of Fathering. Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, 2 (2), 82-94.
Pembroke, N. (2008). The Covenant and Management-Employee Relations: The Issue of Identification-Based Trust. Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies, 21 (1), 39-56.
Pembroke, N. (2008). The Theologian Psychotherapist Requires Diversity Competence Not Non-Specific Orientation: A Response to Stephen Bright. Psychotherapy in Australia, 14 (2), 66-70.
Pembroke, Neil (2007). Empathy, emotion, and ekstasis in the patient-physician relationship. Journal of Religion and Health, 46 (2), 287-298. doi: 10.1007/s10943-006-9071-4
Pembroke, N (2006). Marcelian charm in nursing practice: The unity of agape and eros as the foundation of an ethic of care. Nursing Philosophy: an international journal for healthcare professionals, 7 (4), 266-274. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-769X.2006.00285.x
Pembroke, N. (2006). Merton's true self and the psychology of the dialogical self. Religious Studies and Theology: interdisciplinary studies in religion, 25 (2), 191-210.
Pembroke, Neil (2006). A pastoral perspective on the suffering god. Colloquium, 38 (1), 27-40.
Pembroke, Neil (2005). Kierkegaard as a paradoxical therapist. Pacifica, 18 (1), 53-66. doi: 10.2557/1030-570X.18.1.1964
Pembroke, N. (2005). A trinitarian perspective on the counseling alliance in narrative therapy. Journal of Psychology and Christiantiy, 24 (1), 13-20.
Pembroke, Neil (2004). Trinity, love, and pastorial mirroring. Pastoral Psychology, 53 (2), 163-173. doi: 10.1023/B:PASP.0000046827.45379.8d
Pembroke, N. (2004). Trinity, polyphony and pastoral relationships. Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, 58 (4), 351-362. doi: 10.1177/154230500405800408
Pembroke, N. (2003). Jung and the moral self. Compass, 37, 26-31.
Pembroke, Neil (1998). Toward a shame-based theology of evangelism. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 17 (1), 15-24.
Pembroke, Neil (1995). Karl Rahner and Erik H. Erikson on the Crisis of Faith: Self-Transcendence as the Link Term. Colloquium, 27 (1), 22-29.
Pembroke, Neil (1994). From self-doubt to assurance: The psychological roots of John Wesley's early spiritual development. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 13 (3), 242-253.
Pembroke, Neil (1992). Script analysis integrated with Donald Capps' thematic approach to pastoral counseling. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 11 (1), 14-22.
Pembroke, Neil (1990). John Stott and Erik Erikson on the problem of modernity: Applications for the Ministry of the Church. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 18 (3), 237-243.
Pembroke, Neil (1990). God in the life-cycle: An integration of Karl Rahner's theology of anonymous faith and Erik Erikson's psychology of identity. Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 9 (1), 70-78.