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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... Minister 1. The Discovery of Pastoral Identity 2. The Call to Ministry 3. The Meaning of Ordination 4. Women in the Pastoral Office II . The Pastoral Office 5. Shepherding as Pivotal Analogy 6. The Offices and Gifts of Ministry III ...
... minister is often portrayed marrying couples parachuting out of planes or smoking grass to the hushed beat of tom ... ministry in our time . Another stereotype is of a benign cipher , nice but incompetent . None of these reveals much ...
... minister does . The most astonishing example of this confusion of pastoral identity is in modern pastoral counseling , in which extensive professionalization has been attempted under the confusing rubric of pastor . The shingle of the ...
... ministry are not directly contingent on money . Rather , church support for ministry is premised on an en- tirely different basis : freely bestowed gifts from concerned laity to care for the troubled as Christ has cared for us in our ...
... would be confused , I have preferred words like person , they , or humanity to man , he , or mankind . At times I have inserted brackets in quotations to indicate amendments that convey more inclusive intent 6 BECOMING A MINISTER.
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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 |