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The Minister as Moral Theologian

The Minister as Moral Theologian
Author: Sondra Wheeler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493410296

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The practice of ministry requires pastors and Christian leaders to serve as moral theologians in their communities. Ministers must preach about morally challenging texts, teach about moral issues and conflicts, offer moral counsel, and serve as an example regarding the shape of faithful Christian life. Grounding pastoral ethics in spiritual formation and spiritual disciplines, this book provides tools for facing the day-to-day demands and seizing the opportunities of being a moral teacher. An essential text for practical ministry courses.


Sustaining Ministry

Sustaining Ministry
Author: Sondra Wheeler
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493411578

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This book offers an account of the moral foundations of pastoral ethics and the underlying interpersonal dynamics that make the practice of ministry powerful--and also morally dangerous, even for those with the best of intentions. Sondra Wheeler examines the personal disciplines and spiritual practices that help sustain safe ministry, including the essential practices of prayer and spiritual accountability. She equips ministers to abide by ethical standards when they come under pressure and offers practical strategies for navigating challenges. The author also stresses personal vulnerability and "unselfish self-care."


Ethics for Christian Ministry

Ethics for Christian Ministry
Author: Joe E. Trull
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493411519

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This one-of-a-kind resource in professional ethics helps today's Christian leaders maintain a high moral character and lifestyle and sharpen their personal and professional decision-making skills. Two experienced teachers and pastors address both current and perennial ethical issues and offer guidance for developing a personal code of ethics to maintain integrity in the work of ministry. The authors address the nature of ethical decision making as well as practical areas where integrity can be compromised, including issues raised by the use of smartphones and social media. Appendixes include codes of ethics from various denominations.


Ministerial Ethics

Ministerial Ethics
Author: Joe E. Trull
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1585583022

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Ministerial Ethics provides both new and experienced pastors with tools for sharpening their personal and professional decision-making skills. The authors seek to explain the unique moral role of the minister and the ethical responsibilities of the vocation and to provide "a clear statement of the ethical obligations contemporary clergy should assume in their personal and professional lives." Trull and Carter deal with such areas as family life, confidentiality, truth-telling, political involvement, working with committees, and relating to other church staff members. First published in 1993, this edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and contains expanded sections on theological foundations, the role of character, confidentiality, and the timely topic of clergy sexual abuse. Appendices describing various denominational ministerial codes of ethics are included.


Spirituality and Moral Theology

Spirituality and Moral Theology
Author: James Keating
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809139361

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A collection of essays by leading moral theologians on the topic of how being good is related to being holy in the context of pastoral life.


Ethics in Pastoral Ministry

Ethics in Pastoral Ministry
Author: Richard M. Gula
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616432950

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This book is an attempt to make a Catholic contribution to stimulate a conversation within the Catholic Church on professional ethics in pastoral ministry.--From publisher's description.


Just Ministry

Just Ministry
Author: Richard M. Gula
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809146314

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At a time when concerns for misconduct, abuse scandals, and liability have brought pastoral ministers under greater scrutiny than ever before and have threatened to undermine their morale, Just Ministry offers a positive perspective on the vocation of pastoral ministry and wise ethical guidance to foster integrity in ministry. This is a helpful training and evaluative resource for those involved in pastoral ministry as ordained clergy, religious, or lay ministers. Key concepts are illustrated through case studies and practical strategies for acquiring and developing virtues, as well as preventative education for pastoral ministry in avoiding misconduct. By examining the professional aspects of a ministerial vocation, this book provides a guide for ministers to be accountable in offering their pastoral service with expert knowledge and skill and with good moral character. It builds upon a theology of vocation, a covenantal model of ministry, and a vision of professional identity. Book jacket.


Shaped for Service

Shaped for Service
Author: Paul Goodliff
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498291236

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In the English-speaking Western world alone, thousands of men and women begin formal training for Christian ministry each year, or informally, seek to equip themselves for pastoral ministry. Over the past fifty years, the ancient world of virtue ethics has been reimagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today, and in this book, it is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that formation by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing out of the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Paul Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be, using a mixture of theological and pastoral inquiry, reflections upon art, and personal story. This book will be of interest to those who are charged with forming the next generation of ministers; but anyone starting out on that journey of formation for ministry will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.


The Way of Goodness and Holiness

The Way of Goodness and Holiness
Author: Richard M . Gula
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814639526

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How do ministers, whether lay or ordained, form their spiritual life? What practices do they need to foster in order to become good and to be holy in their service? To answer these questions, Richard Gula invites readers to think along with him about the kind of minister they want to be: If we don't know where we want to go," he writes, "we will easily end up somewhere else." Gula then presents a variety of virtues? Including gratitude, self-care, humor, and courage? and explains how developing these qualities is essential for a minister's moral and spiritual life. By grounding a spirituality for pastoral ministry in the virtues, Gula provides a way for ministers to bridge the gap between who they are and who they hope to become in imitation of Christ Jesus.


Gentle Shepherding

Gentle Shepherding
Author: Joseph Earl Bush
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827212640

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Named "One of the Top Ten Books for Parish Clergy" for the year 2006 by the Academy of Parish Clergy! Gentle Shepherding offers a rare balance in an introduction to pastoral ethics, one that identifies deeply with the pastoral vocation and brings it into conversation with a developed body of ethical theory. The goal of the book is to equip seminarians and pastors with conceptual resources for clarifying moral responsibility in the practice of ministry. This responsibility includes three levels: the minister as a moral agent in offering care; the minister as a moral enabler in encouraging virtue in others; and the minister as a moral leader in facilitating congregational life and witness in society. Helping ministers and seminarians to think anew about their responsibilities and the moral quandaries in pastoral practice, Gentle Shepherding integrates theory with practice, providing case material for further reflection and discussion and at least one case study or exercise associated with each chapter.