Talk:Theology of relational care

Title and context overly exclusive?
This breaks down into several points: 1) "Relational Care" redirects to "Theology of relational care", which either indicates a lack of a page on relational care, or that relational care is a specifically theological topic (this potential problem is reinforced by the content of the article, which makes no mention of non-Christian relational care. 2) Article only mentions Christian-based relational care, and implies that relational care is a largely Christian, or perhaps thelogical, phenomenon. 3) Article is explicitly stated to be under the perview/jurisdiction of Christianity (as a Wikipedia topic/section). This goes contrary to the page title and empirical nature of the "Theology of Relational Care", as theology is most definitely not just Christianity, and relational care exists on the basis of (just as examples, this list is by no means complete) Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Aetheism, LGBTQ,economic situation, races, and even just being fellow human beings. This is not to devalue or marginalize relational care on a Christianity basis--which is significant and admirable--this is merely pointing out that this article, through implication and exclusion (intended or not), leaves out all but Christianity-based relational case, even when the article's title is the theology of relational care, which at the very least includes other religions.

So, either the article title goes far beyond the actual article's scope, or the article's content is extremely incomplete, makes no mention of the other kinds of relational care (including theological relational care, which comprises at least a comparable scope/level of relational care), and under the wrong jurisdiction/perview/broad topic area.

Considering how important and widespread relational care is, this subject should be of a high priority. It also falls under many different broad categories--psychology, sociology, culture, religion, and philosophy, to name a few.

If there are other articles on relational care, then they should be linked in the "See Also" section at the bottom of the article, and this article should not be redirected to when "Relatoinal Care" is entered as a search query. 161.253.8.205 (talk) 14:51, 10 May 2012 (UTC)Salty

Proposed deletion and redirect
In 2013, this article was proposed for deletion and no consensus was reached. I'd like to re-open that discussion. Instead of simply deleting it, I think we ought to redirect this page to Practical theology, where there exists a comment on this particular topic. Although "relational care" in the general sense of "extending care through personal relationships" is an abstractly important idea, this article does not name a discrete concept or set of practices that is notable in itself. The phrase "theology of relational care" does not occur with any frequency in the popular or scholarly conversation. (A search for the phrase on the ATLA Religion Database, the most prominent database of scholarly literature on religion, returns zero results; and a search for the phrase on Google returns nothing but a few passing mentions.) Brian (talk) 17:56, 18 October 2022 (UTC)