Using Christopher Bollas’s concept of transformational object, the author reflects on George F. Handel’s “How Beautiful Are the Feet” as a song that has sustained him and informed his vocational self-understanding as a pastoral theologian. The author reflects on the role of his mother and paternal aunts in fostering a model of care that instilled in him a sense of hope. The author concludes by reflecting on the kinetic quality of pastoral theology and the need to reclaim an agile, even playful understanding of hope.

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乔治·F·亨德尔的“脚有多美”作为转换对象：自传

使用克里斯托弗·博拉斯的转化对象概念，作者反思乔治·F·亨德尔的“脚有多美”，这首歌支持他并告知他作为牧灵神学家的职业自我理解。作者反思了他的母亲和姑姑在培养一种给他灌输希望感的护理模式方面的作用。作者最后反思了牧灵神学的动态特性，以及重新获得对希望的敏捷、甚至是俏皮的理解的必要性。