Pastoral Theology: Essentials of MinistryHarper Collins, 25 mei 1983 - 384 pagina's This much-needed book fully integrates principles of pastoral care, leadership, and theology to restore to ministers a clearly defined pastoral identity. Moving from a critique of inadequate models for ministry -- from community organizer to T. V. evangelist -- Oden develops a more classical model, rich in its references to the past and compatible both with Christian faith and theology through the ages and with current needs. Reconciling classical tradition with practice, Pastoral Theology will be a standard resource and reference in the field. Oden distills the best ideas of the two millennia of ecumenical Christian thinking concerning what pastors are and do. Pastoral Theology provides the foundational knowledge of the pastoral office requisite to the practice of ministry. It will be of interest to persons preparing for ordination in its review of key issues; at the same time, Pastoral Theology will appeal to all those who have considered entering the ministry, those who want to know more about what clergy do and why, and those ministers who want to review their ongoing work in the light of a systematic reflection on the pastoral gifts and tasks. |
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... assumption that women are fully and irreversibly involved in the ordained ministry . While respect- ing more conservative opinion , we will argue for sexual inclusiveness in Christian ministry , that both men and women may be called to ...
... the resurrection did not in any real sense happen , and its eventful- ness cannot be central to faith ; and ( d ) interlaced with these seductive assumptions , the innocent - looking , haloed face of 00 BECOMING A MINISTER.
... assumptions . The Atrophied Discipline With such pressing needs it is all the more surprising that no sys- tematic , scripturally grounded pastoral theology has been written for an English - speaking ecumenical audience since Washington ...
... assumptions . Pastoral theology lives out of Scripture . When the pastoral tradition has quoted Scripture , it has viewed it as an authoritative text for shap- ing both its understanding and its practice of ministry . We do not put ...
... assumptions of our own limited modern cultural conscious- ness . A crippling deficit of modern pastoral care has been its intense resistance to premodern pastoral writers . Many modern pastoral writ- ers have looked cynically ...
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The Ministry of Baptism and Eucharist | 105 |
The Ministry of the Word Through Preaching | 139 |
Equipping the Laity for Ministry | 159 |
Pastoral Visitation | 169 |
The Care of Souls | 186 |
A Theodicy for Pastoral Practice | 223 |
Ministry to the Sick | 249 |
The Care of the Poor | 267 |
Pastoral Care of the Dying | 293 |
The Trajectory of Pastoral Theology | 311 |
Abbreviations | 317 |
Index of Names | 355 |
Index of Scripture References | 369 |