Classical Pastoral Care

Classical Pastoral CareClassic 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 three, Pastoral Counsel, deals directly with the nature of the counseling relationship, the metaphors of soul

The book includes a foreword by Michael Root

Johnson weaves in an ancient murder mystery between chapters to show how ancient Israelites could have reasoned with and through Torah to solve real-life problems

well-respected New Testament scholar Frank Matera examines cultural context and theological meaning in Romans

Churches often realize they need to change

and teaching

and music and includes helpful exposition and contemporary commentary on key figures in political theology

the cross and the resurrection

highlighting enduring existential issues in the Hebrew Bible and discussing Jewish readings alongside Christian readings

This book provides a fresh interpretation of Genesis 22 and reinforces the church's resurgent interest in lament as an appropriate response to God

The book provides substantive engagement with the doctrine of transformative union

there has been little effort to combine a Christian understanding of forgiveness with psychology

Osborne surveys various approaches commentators have taken on whether Revelation refers primarily to the past or to events that are yet future