Reconciliation and the pastoral office: a model for pastoral leadership as an agent of reconciliation in the local church

Ralph David Mitchell

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Reconciliation and the pastoral office: a model for pastoral leadership as an agent of reconciliation in the local church

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Ralph David Mitchell. Reconciliation and the Pastoral Office: a Model for Pastoral Leadership As an Agent of Reconciliation In the Local Church. San Francisco Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/297f4f8e-3d2e-456b-9d8d-d22b2fe80231.

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R. D. Mitchell. Reconciliation and the pastoral office: a model for pastoral leadership as an agent of reconciliation in the local church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/297f4f8e-3d2e-456b-9d8d-d22b2fe80231

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Ralph David Mitchell. Reconciliation and the Pastoral Office: a Model for Pastoral Leadership As an Agent of Reconciliation In the Local Church. San Francisco Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/297f4f8e-3d2e-456b-9d8d-d22b2fe80231.

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The dissertation proposes a model of pastoral leadership in response to the fragmentation and divisive conflict prevalent in the United Presbyterian church over a broad range of issues coalesced along the lines of Martin Marty's distinction between 'public' and 'private' Protestantism. Reconciliation is a central biblical/theological motif, providing a relational conceptualization of the work of Christ and describing God's intervention into the human situation to overcome enmity and restructure actual relationships of persons to God, themselves and one another. The church's ministry is one of announcing and demonstrating God's reconciling work in Christ, and of participating in the restructuring of human community in its own life and in ministries in the world. Pastoral ministry is an office of accountable public leadership involving three main responsiblities: labor in Word and doctrine, facilitation of the faith-development of the members, and leadership of the ministries of the church. The chapters on conflict and the clusters of denominational current opinion provide the additional foundation for the develepment of a model for the pastor's role as an agent of reconciliation.

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