Proyecto Integrador Final Un marco personal de la ética en la consejería bíblica
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Final Integrative Project articulates, from the pastoral voice of Rev. Sergio Leal Escriba, a personal framework of ethics for biblical counseling that integrates the six competencies of the seminar as a single, unified movement. The central thesis holds that counseling is not a technique to be mastered, but a wisdom to be cultivated and a life formed before God. The framework unfolds through six articulated affirmations: (1) the counseled person is simultaneously the image of God and fallen, a category Flecha Andrés terms iconality; (2) the Christological paradigm demands truth and mercy in the very same act, without being distributed over time; (3) the method integrates accompaniment and confrontation as two moments of a single act of love, following Adams, Schipani, and Bonhoeffer; (4) ethical limits emerge when duties clash, requiring hierarchical discernment; (5) the path yields wisdom as its fruit and humility as its guardian; and (6) the community sustains the counseled counselor, because no one can give sustainably from what they do not receive. Five operative principles derive from this articulation: simultaneity, order, hierarchy, iconality, and epistemic humility. The framework acknowledges its own limits: it is not a repertoire of solutions, nor a guarantee against failure, nor does it turn the counselor into an expert in the souls of others. It concludes on bended knee, recognizing that the only Counselor who never grows weary is the Holy Spirit, and that wisdom is received each day as grace, not as a possession.
Author: Leal Ramirez, Sergio
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204590079