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Classical Pastoral Care by Thomas C Oden
Classic Pastoral Care provides a topical arrangement of passages from classic Christian writings offering guidance on all major topics of pastoral theology. The four-volume set features writings from more than two hundred notable Christian authors--from Abelard and Ambrose to Isaac Watts and Zwingli--arranged in thirty topical sections. Volume four, Crisis Ministries, deals with crucial situations in which pastors are often called to respond to urgent and specific challenges: care of the sick, the management of pain, the struggle with the meaning of suffering, pastoral visitation of families, interpersonal crises, conflict resolution, care of the emotionally ill, alcoholism, vocational counseling, suicide counseling, premarital, marital and family counseling, care of the poor, care for the terminally ill, and care for the dying and the grieving.
Oden, Thomas C.: - Thomas C. Oden, the retired Henry Anson Buttz Professor of Theology and Ethics, is an ancient ecumenical evangelical with a passion for orthodoxy. For over thirty years he taught at Drew University and came under the influence of his irascible, endearing Jewish mentor Will Herberg. Herberg bluntly told Oden that he would remain densely uneducated unless he read deeply in patristic writers. This focus on patristics (the early church fathers) helped professor Oden to realize that modernity is over. As he probed the early church writers for several decades, he incorporated and rechanneled his activism and idealism for the modernist social gospel into a recovery of the classic religious tradition. Scripture found new life in him, which means he repented an enthrallment with progressive social causes in favor of a stable two-thousand year memory, which he defines as orthodoxy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801067662 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801067669 |
| Title | Classical Pastoral Care |
| Author | Thomas C Oden |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Baker Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2000-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 274 |
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