Sentences with phrase «pastoral education studies»

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That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Any adequate discussion of the theme of love of God and neighbor and of its relevance to Church and school requires all the resources of the theological curriculum from study of the Scriptures through systematic theology, the philosophy, psychology and history of religion, Christian and social ethics to pastoral theology, Christian education and homiletics.

The concern for theology, not as a particularist discipline but as the search for human wisdom about the wisdom of God in the creation and redemption of man, is manifest in other disciplines besides Biblical studies: in systematic theology frequently, occasionally in Christian ethics, homiletics, religious education and pastoral counseling.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

After his conversion to Christ, education in Biblical Studies and Theology, and pastoral ordination, he served as an Associate Pastor.

Education requirements include a degree in pastoral studies or theology.

Becoming an AAPC certified pastoral counselor requires a serious commitment that begins with stringent education requirements — a B.A. and a Master of Divinity, or a master's or doctoral level degree in theological / spiritual or biblical studies, or a Masters or Doctoral level degree in pastoral counseling, from accredited colleges or universities.

Closely related field (social work, psychology, counseling, child development and family studies, medicine, nursing, pastoral counseling, ministry, theology, education, and sociology) and graduate coursework in marriage and family therapy from an accredited institution or national accrediting agency.