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Pastoral Theology: Therapy, Mission or Liberation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Elaine Graham
Affiliation:
Department of Religions and Theology, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Extract

In a book entitled The Christian Pastor and the Working Church, published in 1898, Washington Gladden, a leading figure in the Social Gospel movement, attempts a definition of the field of Pastoral Theology. Gladden's characterisation of pastoral theology as the pragmatic study of the work of the minister and the management of the Church is typical of many definitions, both historical and contemporary:

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1999

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