An updating of virtue ethics for modern pastors and the souls they care for, this book proposes innovations for the craft of ministry in the theology of gracehow virtues radiate to tame strife and other destructive behaviors. It presents a comprehensive alternative to the top-down proclamations of biblical counseling approaches that try to impart, from an eclectic biblicist lens, cognitive authorities for consequential change. Instead, Christs bottom-up practice of virtues heals and fulfills by focusing on neighbor first and subordinating the egos strategic considerationsmore graciously spreading Gods will in ministry through participatory and experiential knowledge. Virtuous pastoral ministries integrate the common grace of humanist learning to address the range of the care seekers contemporary contexther upbringing, struggles, and affiliations. This book presents more the how than the what of pastoral theology: more how the dance of mutuality and chivalry enters the spiritual flow of healing metaphysical grace than the what of right belief. Even so, pastoral care from the virtue ethical approach inevitably reconsiders vending machine theologies, destructive doctrinal boundaries, and context-lite biblicisms. This presentation introduces how virtue ethics apply to ministry, the household, individual trauma and addictions, and the contemporary political and cultural arena.
- | Author: Douglas B. Olds
- | Publisher: Wipf And Stock
- | Publication Date: May 23, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 332 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1666766976
- | ISBN-13: 9781666766974
