A History of Pastoral Care

by Evans, G. R.

• ISBN13: 9780225668407
• ISBN10: 0225668408
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A history of pastoral care is a history of the Christian church in action. But if any sense is to be made of the centuries of Christian work and effort, not only the practicalities of making the message of the Gospel a reality on earth, but also the ideas which have shaped the attempt, century by century, must be examined.

This is the history of 2000 years of thought and practice in Christian pastoral ministry. Until comparatively late in that story the bulk of the formative thinking took place in the Middle East and in Europe and this forms the background for recent developments in understanding human nature, and the ways in which that understanding has influenced our thinking in pastoral care.

Subjects covered range from the Biblical foundations to the sects and new religious movements; from the Fathers, the monks, the Friars, the Templars to the changes at the end of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
G.R. Evans
PART I The Biblical Foundations
The Old Testament	15	(15)
J.W. Rogerson
The New Testament	30	(29)
David Graham
PART II The Early Christian World
The Fathers and the early Councils	59	(18)
G.R. Evans
Pastoral care and the monks: `Whose feet do you wash?'	77	(16)
Benedicta Ward
PART III The Middle Ages
Penitentials and pastoral care	93	(19)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Pastoral care: the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215	112	(14)
Norman Tanner
A ministry of preachers and confessors: the pastoral impact of the friars	126	(22)
Michael Robson
The charitable and medical activities of the Hospitallers and Templars	148	(21)
Malcolm Barber
`Since the pestilence time': pastoral care in the later Middle Ages	169	(32)
William J. Dohar
Catechesis in East and West	201	(22)
Lambros Kamperidis
PART IV The Early Modern Period
The Reformation crisis in pastoral care	223	(29)
David Cornick
The ministry to outsiders: the Jesuits	252	(10)
John O'Malley
The family and pastoral care	262	(32)
Ralph Houlbrooke
George Herbert and The Country Parson	294	(19)
Philip Sheldrake
Pastoral care in England: Perkins, Baxter and Burnet	313	(15)
David Cornick
The twentieth-century Anglican Franciscans	328	(17)
Peta Dunstan
The growth of the soul in Charles Kingsley	345	(17)
G. R. Evans
Post-Enlightenment pastoral care: into the twentieth century	362	(21)
David Cornick
PART V The Modern World
Pastoral care at the end of the twentieth century	383	(17)
Ian Bunting
The sacraments of healing: penance and anointing of the sick	400	(14)
Richard P. McBrien
Justice: pastoral care and the ecclesiastical law	414	(19)
Rupert Bursell
Ecumenism and ecclesial and pastoral proclamation	433	(13)
Jeffrey Gros
Eamon McManus
Ann Riggs
Sects and new religious movements	446	(8)
Martyn Percy
The pastoral care of people of other faiths	454	(11)
Christopher Lamb
Conclusion	465	(2)
Index	467