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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... church support for ministry is premised on an en- tirely different basis : freely bestowed gifts from concerned ... church's ministry , whether of counsel , sacrament , or preaching , which is properly offered openly to all without ...
... Church of Christ parishes , to several United Methodist parishes , plus ten years teaching in a Disciples of Christ semi- nary , and over another decade in a United Methodist Seminary - a fair amount of ecumenical exposure to the ...
... church , and to minister to the church through human agency , by calling ordinary , vulnerable , pride - prone persons into the ministry of word and sacrament . However vulnerable ministry may be to wretched distortions and abuses ...
... church ( to participate in God's plan to save fallen creation ) and to provide an ordered means for its guidance ... church for the salvation of humankind ( Calvin , 1559 , 4. 1 ) . Yet to say that ministry is necessary for the church is ...
... church that outwardly confers . the office of ministry . It is not conferred by a private person or by the state or by the ordinand alone , but by the church , and not merely the local church but the whole church on behalf of the ...
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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 |