Abstract:
The practice of pastoral diagnosis is subjected to critical reflection
from a post structuralist perspective. Instead of generalised
statements about pastoral diagnosis, the works of
two South African pastoral theologians, Jan de Jongh van
Arkel and Daniel Louw, are discussed. After a description of
the structuralist/post-structuralist discourse and the implications
thereof for diagnosis, the works of the two before mentioned
theologians are scrutinised from a post-structuralist
viewpoint.
