Explores Anabaptist understandings of such images of the pastor as shepherd, teacher, healer, and prophet as well as such issues as leadership, authority, ecclesiology, improvisation, and much more. In 17 chapters plus appendices, notes, and indexes, the authors affirm resources for pastoral ministry found in the Anabaptist tradition and suggest areas for growth. Models its own message by prophetically challenging, caring about, and promoting mutual service in the body of Christ as the true path of pastoral ministry. It speaks with the authority of a community of Anabaptist scholarship that cares about the soul of what is truly pastoral. David W Augsburger
ISBN: 9781931038225 (2004) 288pp
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