The Pastor as Moral Guide (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling) - Softcover

Miles, Rebekah L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800631366 ISBN 13: 9780800631369

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1999

Synopsis

Adultery, divorce, racism, teen pregnancy, white-collar crime, living wills---these are among the many complex moral issues that Christians face and for which they often seek guidance from their pastors. This book is designed to assist pastors in developing their skills in providing moral guidance to their parishioners in a culture characterized by both ethical confusion and increasingly complex moral choices. Rebekah Miles, a gifted thinker and writer, guides the reader through the landscape of the moral life and offers a simple but profound map of the moral terrain along with practical tools to enable pastoral caregivers to serve more effectively as moral guides.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Rebekah Miles draws deeply from the richness of many intellectual streams in theology and ethics and identifies ways to tackle the hard questions of what to do when reflective listening, one the one hand, and religious absolutes, on the other, are poor responses to those in need. Many people have talked about the need for moral guidance as a critical part of pastoral care, but almost no one has put much meat on the bone. . . . Miles gives pastors lots of food for thought in a book that embodies her sensitivity and insights as a faithful pastor and her years of study and teaching in theological ethics." ---Bonnie Miller-McLemore Vanderbilt University Divinity School

"This book is excellent---a genuine contribution to the slowly growing body of literature on ethics and pastoral care. It will be appreciated." ---Don Browning University of Chicago Divinity School

About the Author:

Rebekah L. Miles is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of United Methodist Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0800631366
• ISBN 13: 9780800631369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152