Sentences with phrase «cure of souls»

I was surprised by Charles Colson's criticism of my views («Crime and the Cure of the Soul,» October 1993), and I must respond to him.

And entertainers now do it all: politics, ethics, confession, marriages, cure of souls.

The cure of souls is difficult because the disease of the soul runs deep and takes myriad forms.

Every cure must be connected with a pastoral talk, because God's main intent is the cure of the soul and the cure of the body is secondary.

At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some of the wisdom of these more ancient traditions of the cure of souls.

To be sure, in the good books of that general era, such as John Watson's The Cure of Souls or Charles E. Jefferson's The Ministering Shepherd, there was much wisdom that would be appropriate for any age of ministry.

-LRB-(W. A. Clebsch and C. J. Jaekle (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice - Hall, 1964); see also John T. McNeill, A History of the Cure of Souls (New York: Harper &: Brothers, 1951) and Charles F. Kemp, Physicians of theca Soul (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947).

These should be downsized or shed as necessary because the gospel and the cure of souls take precedence above all.

, The Cure of Souls: An Anthology of P.T Forsyth's Practical Writings (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, I97I), p. 70.

Rather it is a reconnaissance — perhaps too a renaissance — a rediscovery of» the role of the church in society with a particular and urgent emphasis on the cure of souls.

John McNeill's A History of the Cure of Souls and the essays in The Ministry in Historical Perspectives treat the history in significant detail.2

I got to thinking: If a medical doctor is aware that sabbath rest, prayer and meditation are good for patients» health, and if he doesn't hesitate to ask them whether they are following such practices, why am I, a pastor — professionally involved in what used to be called «the cure of souls» — so reluctant to ask such questions?

First, pastoral counseling maintains and develops the long tradition of the religious ministry in the care and cure of souls.

Don Bosco, Dominic Barberi, John Vianney and countless others have become transparent vehicles for evangelization and the cure of souls.

The Inquisition was deemed a department of the cure of souls.