scholarly journals The Bishop's Pastoral Ministry to the Unity of God's People: Perspectives on the Application of the New Ecumenical Directory for Bishops

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Pavel Ambros
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
God's People

scholarly journals SPIRITUALITAS IMAMAT DALAM BAYANG-BAYANG TANTANGAN PASTORAL (IMAM SEBAGAI PELAYAN DALAM TANTANGAN PASTORAL DI KEUSKUPAN TIMIKA)

Forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Emanuel Richardus Buang Lela ◽  
Edison R.L. Tinambunan
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
God's People ◽  
Concrete Service

This article focuses on reflections of the priestly vocation as a minister in the context and pastoral situation in the Diocese of Timika. The approach is studying on ecclesiastical documents in regarding on the priesthood spirituality in serving of God's people. The purpose of this paper is to discover the high spirit of ministry of a priest who is based on the example of Jesus Christ as Teacher and Chief Pastor in the pastoral ministry of the Timika Diocese. Total service in dedicative involvement, a soothing presence, entering into the struggles of family life, and having the courage of dialoguing with anyone are a concrete service to realize the spirit of the ministry of Jesus Christ in the challenges of the pastoral field in the Timika Diocese. Artikel ini berfokus pada refleksi mengenai panggilan hidup imamat sebagai pelayan di tengah konteks dan situasi pastoral di Keuskupan Timika. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah studi dokumen gerejani mengenai spiritualitas imamat dalam pelayanan bagi umat Allah. Tujuan dari tulisan ini adalah untuk menemukan semangat pelayanan yang luhur dari seorang imam yang bertolak pada teladan Yesus Kristus sebagai guru dan gembala utama dalam pelayanan pastoral di keuskupan Timika. Pelayanan yang total dalam keterlibatan yang dedikatif, kehadiran yang menyejukkan, masuk dalam pergumulan hidup keluarga, dan berani untuk berdialog dengan siapa pun merupakan pelayanan konkret demi mewujudkan spirit pelayanan Yesus Kristus di tengah tantangan medan pastoral di Keuskupan Timika.

The Woman of Tekoa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina E. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Death Toll ◽  
God's People

This chapter focuses on the woman of Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and argues that her speech points out a pattern of David’s previous misconducts (profiled in ANE literature as the royal deviance principle) that endangered his family and YHWH’s people. Using the ominous phraseology in v. 14 (we are like water spilled on the ground), and reinforcing its tie to ancient maledictions, the woman parades before David a horrid demise of a nation due to its monarch’s failure to rectify inner-dynastic feuds. By placing her curse-related imagery into a lament-based petition, the woman protests its fulfilment in the ensuing chapters in the Absalom saga. Since the entirety of 2 Sam. 14 is supplemented with grief-related artifices, the woman’s speech functions as an act of mourning for the cumulative death toll of God’s people under David’s kingship.

Motivation for the Pastoral Profession in the Netherlands

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hessel J. Zondag
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
Expectancy Theory ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Protestant Denominations

Expectancy theory has been utilized by organizational psychology to explore the expectations and valuations of individuals in various professions. This study employs expectancy theory to clergy, investigating pastors' personal motivations, or values, for assuming pastoral ministry and the subsequent expectation that these values will be honored by their activities within the pastorate. The responses of 235 pastors from Catholic and Protestant denominations on a 24-item questionnaire devised to gauge pastoral motivation and adapted to assess pastoral expectations were factor analyzed and correlated in this exploratory study. The analysis yielded four robust factors. The first two motives found to be dominant were the pursuit of a Christian Way of Life and Anthropocentric Altruism. Anthropocentric Egoism and Theocentric Egoism, although secondary motivations, were theoretically meaningful in the understanding of pastoral motivations and expectations. The impact of expectations upon pastoral well-being and resilience against burnout is discussed.

The Failure of Functional Theologies of Ministry and the Promise of a Relational Alternative

Ecclesiology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Graham Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Ministry ◽  
Pastoral Theory ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe author critiques inductive approaches to pastoral theology that rely on the empirical methodology of the social and human sciences, and presents an alternative Christocentric praxis model of pastoral ministry. The result is an attempt to integrate pastoral theory and practice that shifts the perspective away from functionally-determined theologies of ministry to a relationally oriented and hermeneutically coherent model of orthopraxis in which theory and practice interact in a way that is intended to both deepen faith and transform lives. Some of the key themes that inform the discussion are the importance of theological method, the role of the community as the context for care, the relationship between practical ministry and systematic theology, and the notion of praxis in articulating the nature and scope of practical theology today.

The Pastoral Ministry

1964 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-267
Author(s):  
N. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Ministry
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