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From midterms to ministry : practical theologians on pastoral beginnings / edited by Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.

Contributor(s): Cole, Allan Hugh
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xxiii, 324 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802840028 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0802840027 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Pastoral theology | Theology, PracticalDDC classification: 253/.2 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The essential untidiness of ministry / Thomas G. Long -- Leadership, pastoral identity, and friendship : navigating the transition from seminary to the parish / L. Gregory Jones and Susan Pendleton Jones -- Making the transition : from a theology of ministry to a ministry of theology / Ray S. Anderson -- Pulpit supply / Stephanie Paulsell -- Blackduck / James F. Kay -- Have you asked a good question today? / Elizabeth F. Caldwell -- Ministry and clouds of witnesses / Michael Jinkins -- Fragile connections : constructing an identity in the first year of ministry / Carrie Doehring -- The meandering ministry / M. Craig Barnes -- The furnace of humiliation / Pamela D. Couture -- You can never be too smart / Karen Marie Yust -- From Texas pastor to Princeton professor / Cleophus J. LaRue -- Contemplation in action / Anthony B. Robinson -- Spinning gold from straw : a matter of multiple vocations / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- Sustaining the pastoral life / Earl F. Palmer -- Gossip : the grace notes of congregational life / Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer -- Three teachers / Loren B. Mead -- Bearing a memory, sticking out like a sore thumb, expressing a hope / Theodore J. Wardlaw -- A different kind of transition / J. Philip Wogaman -- Learning to build Christian community : males, whites, heterosexuals wanted for leadership / Traci C. West -- What a minister is to do / Wallace M. Alston Jr. -- Blooming where we are planted / Kathy Dawson -- Between two worlds / William H. Willimon -- Lessons learned / Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The essential untidiness of ministry / Thomas G. Long -- Leadership, pastoral identity, and friendship : navigating the transition from seminary to the parish / L. Gregory Jones and Susan Pendleton Jones -- Making the transition : from a theology of ministry to a ministry of theology / Ray S. Anderson -- Pulpit supply / Stephanie Paulsell -- Blackduck / James F. Kay -- Have you asked a good question today? / Elizabeth F. Caldwell -- Ministry and clouds of witnesses / Michael Jinkins -- Fragile connections : constructing an identity in the first year of ministry / Carrie Doehring -- The meandering ministry / M. Craig Barnes -- The furnace of humiliation / Pamela D. Couture -- You can never be too smart / Karen Marie Yust -- From Texas pastor to Princeton professor / Cleophus J. LaRue -- Contemplation in action / Anthony B. Robinson -- Spinning gold from straw : a matter of multiple vocations / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- Sustaining the pastoral life / Earl F. Palmer -- Gossip : the grace notes of congregational life / Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer -- Three teachers / Loren B. Mead -- Bearing a memory, sticking out like a sore thumb, expressing a hope / Theodore J. Wardlaw -- A different kind of transition / J. Philip Wogaman -- Learning to build Christian community : males, whites, heterosexuals wanted for leadership / Traci C. West -- What a minister is to do / Wallace M. Alston Jr. -- Blooming where we are planted / Kathy Dawson -- Between two worlds / William H. Willimon -- Lessons learned / Allan Hugh Cole, Jr.

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