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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... offer a bedside prayer for a fee , as bedside medical services are offered . Ordinary working pastors have a clear right and strong historical precedent actively to reclaim the term pastoral counselor for their daily work and not let it ...
... offer a classically grounded systematic pastoral theology that is not insufferably dull . I seek simply to bring the avail- able wisdoms of the pastoral tradition into clear , sharp contemporary expression , pertinent to the practice of ...
... offer the sacraments as if this were a morally irrelevant act . The classi- cal pastoral tradition requires us to challenge these assumptions . The Atrophied Discipline With such pressing needs it is all the more surprising that no sys ...
... offering and providing it . But keep in mind that what God wills toward persons with free agency is always subject to rejection and distortion by free agents . The whole problem of sin is precisely this : the willed abuse of a good ...
... offered detailed treatments , on the whole affirm- ative , of ( a ) Carl Rogers and client - centered therapy ( in Kerygma and Counseling ) ; ( b ) Seward Hiltner , Paul Tillich , Rudolf Bultmann , and others ( in Contemporary Theology ...
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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 |