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Becoming a Pastor Theologian: New Possibilities for Church Leadership is unavailable, but you can change that!

The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways. Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology. The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome this divide...

being-towards-resurrection. In the book I coauthored with Owen Strachan, The Pastor as Public Theologian, I wrote about how pastors minister the gospel word of reconciliation through personal counseling and pastoral visitation; here I want to say something about proclamation as preaching (and teaching). Preaching is a microcosm of pastoral ministry, “the most public of pastoral acts.”18 As the sermon goes, so goes the (holy) nation. Shallow sermons foster shallow congregations. Words are our most sophisticated
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