Shaped for Service - Ministerial Formation and Virtue Ethics (Paperback)

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 re-imagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today. In Shaped for Service, this experience is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that development by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing from the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be using a mixture of theological and pastoral enquiry, 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 beginning that journey of formation for ministry themselves will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.

General

Imprint:	Lutterworth Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Paul W Goodliff
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-0-7188-9521-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Baptist Churches Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Baptist Churches Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Baptist Churches Promotions
LSN:	0-7188-9521-5
Barcode:	9780718895211

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