The Reverend Dr A. J. van den Blink
Professor of Ascetical and Pastoral Theology

B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
B.D., Yale University
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary.

• Diplomate and past President of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors
• Supervisor, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
• Associate Priest, Grace Episcopal Church, Elmira, New York
• Spiritual Directors International

Han van den Blink brings to his interest in Anglican spiritual formation many years of experience as a psychologist and pastoral counselor. He is particularly interested in retrieving what has been traditionally called the cura animarum, or cure of souls, tending to people's spiritual needs without neglecting their other wants from a perspective which is based in a practice of prayer and a rule of life, and which is theologically articulate, psychologically informed and politically aware.

Fr. van den Blink has received training in spiritual direction at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and is a member of the Fellowship of St. John, an associate order of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. He is also a member of the Society of Pastoral Theology, a Diplomate of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, of which he is past President, and a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In December 2001 he was elected as the new Chaplain General of the Community of the Transfiguration in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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