Paul as pastor

Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. The Household Setting of Paul's Pastoral Practice and its Biblical and Jewish Roots / Brian S. Rosner -- 2. Paul as Pastor in Acts: Modelling and Teaching Perseverance in the Faith / Alan J. Thompson -- 3. Paul as Pastor in Romans: Theological Foundations / Colin G. Kruse -- 4. Paul's Pastoral Sensitivity in 1 Corinthians / Matthew R. Malcolm -- 5. Paul as Pastor in 2 Corinthians / Paul W. Barnett -- 6. Pastoring with a Big Stick: Paul as Pastor in Galatians / Michael F. Bird -- 7. Paul and Pastors in Ephesians: The Pastor as Teacher / Peter Orr -- 8. Paul and Pastors in Philippians: When Staff teams Disagree / Sarah Harris -- 9. Paul as Pastor in Colossians? / Andrew S. Malone -- 10. Mother, Father, Infant, Orphan, Brother: Paul's Variegated Pastoral Strategy Towards His Thessalonian Church-Family / Trevor J. Burke -- 11. Paul as Working Pastor: Exposing and Open Ethical Secret / Robert W. Yarbrough -- 12. The Pastoral Offices in the Pastoral Epistles and the Church of England's First Ordinal / Tim Patrick -- 13. Augustine of Hippo on Paul as Pastor - Andrew M. Bain -- 14. 'He Followed Paul' Whitefield's Voice: Heroic, Apostolic, Prophetic / Rhys S. Bezzant -- Index.

"Paul as Pastor demonstrates the critical nature of Paul's pastoral care to his identity and activities. Despite the fact that Paul never identifies himself as a pastor, there is much within the Pauline letters that alludes to this as a possible aspect of Paul's vocation and commitments, and this has been a topic of relative scholarly neglect. The contributors to this volume consider the household setting of Paul's pastoral practice, the evidence of Acts and a survey of themes in each of the letters in the traditional Pauline corpus. Additionally, three chapters supply case studies of the Wirkungsgeschichte of Paul's pastoral practice in the pastoral offices of the Anglican Communion in the denomination's Ordinal, and in the lives and thought of Augustine of Hippo and George Whitfield. As such Paul as Pastor provides a stimulating resource on a neglected and critical dimension of Paul and his letters and an invaluable tool for those in pastoral ministry and those responsible for their training."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.