c.neuger@tcu.edu
817.257.7584

TCU Box 298130
2855 South University
Suite 117A
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Christie Cozad Neuger has served as a pastor, chaplain, pastoral counselor, and professor. An ordained United Methodist elder, she received her Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and her Ph.D. from Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Neuger is Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Counseling at Brite Divinity School. She is a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and is an active member in both the Society for Pastoral Theology and the International Academy of Practical Theology. Besides numerous articles and chapters, Dr. Neuger has published four books, The Arts of Ministry A Feminist-Womanist Approach (edited), The Care of Men (co-edited with James Poling, Counseling Women: A Narrative Pastoral Approach, and Men's Work In Ending Violence Against Women (co-edited with James Poling). She is working on a book tentatively entitled Reclaiming Pastoral Counseling for the Parish and on a revision of Howard Clinebell's Basic Types of Pastoral Care and Counseling. Dr. Neuger is married to Win Neuger and they have two adult children and four grandchildren.
B.A., University of Minnesota, 1975
M.A., United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, 1980
Ph.D. School of Theology at Claremont, 1987
United Methodist Church
books and articles
Counseling Women Neuger, Christie. Counseling Women: A Narrative Pastoral Approach (2002)
Neuger, Christie. "Power and Difference in Pastoral Theology" in Nancy Ramsay (ed) Redefining the Pardigms - Pastoral Care, Counseling, and Theology, (Abingdon, 2004)
Neuger, Christie. "Image and Imagination: Why Inclusive Language Matters" in C. Pressler and L. Day (eds) Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2007)
Comprehensive Bibliography
Courses
research interests
Dr. Neuger is currently developing viable methods for Parish-based pastoral counseling and is researching the use of Narrative Therapy in pastoral care and counseling and also the contemporary Dynamics of Bereavement and Grief.
suggested reading
Anderson, Herbert and Edward Foley. Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals. 1998.

Doehring, Carrie. The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach, 2006.

Purnell, Douglas. Conversation As Ministry: Stories and Strategies for Confident Caregiving, 2003.