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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... moral response or ethical con- straint or norms of redemptive behavior . Antinomianism is the weird , wild , impulsive , unpredictable sleeping partner of much contemporary pastoral care . It mistakes the gospel for license , freedom ...
... moral response , no behavioral change , no exemplary life , no " works of the law . " As if having watched too much ... morally evaluative ( " preachy " ) demeanor and risk no admonition , disavowing the prophetic office . We offer the ...
... moral lights , to have had valid reasons for so strongly affirm- ing these tasks of nurture of the family that they have by implication denied both ordination and priestly activity to women , as was common in much of the ancient world ...
... moral irresponsibility , social corruption , and being a revolutionary danger . The social assump- tions about women in the first - century context took for granted that faithful women would use discrete judgment in their public appear ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |