Frank Woggon, PhD

Chaplain. Clinical Theologian & Educator. Author.

“Appreciative dialogue that is rooted in love for the world and its inhabitants transcends dogmatic certitude about the human condition and is open to discover new possibilities of seeing and naming the world, including one’s theological world.”

 

From The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-onement, p. 15

Books

The Empathic God

The Empathic God offers a re-interpretation of the Christian doctrine of atonement from the perspective of clinical spiritual care and develops a theological theory for spiritual care based upon that interpretation.

News

The Empathic God nominated for the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Religion

March 18, 2025

I recveived an official notice that The Empathic God has been nominated for the 2026 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and that the nomination has been accepted. This is a great honor, and I am excited and humbled that the book is being considered for the award. The Grawemeyer Award in Religion honors and publicizes annually creative and constructive insights into the relationship between human beings and the divine, and ways in which this relationship may inspire or empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity or meaning, either individually or in community. The recipient of the award will be announced in December. Stay tuned!

 

 

Podcast

JourneyTalks

November 29, 2024

JourneyTalks is a podcast that is hosted by the Rev. Jorge Sayago-Gonzales and focuses on how to connect with gratitude and inspiration in one's life. Season 2 just came out, and the first episode is a conversation I had with Jorge earlier this year about gratitude, self-awareness, fears and challenges, and the wisdom on the journey that is life.

Speaking

ACPE East-Central Community of Practice Spring Meeting: Constructing a Clinical Theology for Spiritual Care: Using the Clinical Method for Theological Reflection

April 18, 2025

Join me, as I discuss with clinical educators in a virtual meeting how to utilize a clincial method of theological/ philosophical reflection based on the method used to construct a clincial theology that I used in my book about The Empathic God. While the book decontructs and reconstructs a central Christian teaching, the method used is applicable to diverse religious/philosophical contexts, and the presentation will provide various examples how to engage in theological/ philosophical reflection in Clinical Pastoral Education.