pastoral theology

Charles Gerkin does an excellent job of surveying the history of pastoral care and making the field of pastoral care relevant in the present context of the parish. This is an exellent text for both the classroom and the parish, because it does address these relevant themes.

Peale's strong, clear, and loving witness to his faith in Jesus. He also relates true stories about others who have experienced the positive power of Jesus Christ.

This book is a sign of hope for us. A candid, bold, and often hard-hitting commentary on the Roman Catholic priesthood.

Offers a needed response to the oft-asked question, "what does it mean to be a minister in contemporary society?".

In the changing situations of history Christians are called upon to give a public account of the hope that is them. In Faith and the Future noted theologian Walter Kasper addresses himself to just such an account for the 1980s, a decade characterized not by the utopian ideas of evolutionary and revolutionary progress of the sixties and early seventies but by an increasing fear of the future - fear, despair, and loss of hope.