For For readers studying the encounter-group movement and its religious parallels; not for a general reader.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A 1972 look at the encounter-group movement as a new form of pietism.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological4 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Published by Westminster Press in 1972, a book of about 190 pages on the encounter and sensitivity groups of the period, which its subtitle calls "the new pietism". It is one of Oden's books on therapy and group practice from the years before his turn to the church fathers, a period he later recounted in his memoir. Library records give no fuller description, so nothing more is said here.
