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 four, Crisis Ministries, deals with crucial situations in which pastors are often called to respond to urgent
He demonstrates that church doctrines are more clearly grounded in Scripture than modern biblical scholarship has often supposed and that the Bible can define and elaborate the content of these doctrines
and to demonstrate how these theological ideas can be developed into clear and accurate expository ideas
This popular textbook is organized around 14 key moments in church history
natural science and evolution
the book has now been updated and revised
Longman notes that wisdom is a practical category (the skill of living)
This book gives readers not only an understanding of the principles of proper biblical interpretation but also the ability to apply those principles in sermon preparation
After introductory chapters on reading the Sermon on the Mount
Wisdom literature is an unfamiliar genre to modern readers and presents many interpretive challenges
these essays are now available for the first time in one affordable volume with a substantial new introduction that ties them all together
Renowned author and scholar Walter Kaiser shows why the Old Testament deserves equal attention with the New Testament and offers a helpful guide on how preachers and teachers can give it the full attention it deserves
A must-have for serious students of the Fourth Gospel