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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...

Scripture.”3 The well-being of the church, and its mission, depends on pastors recovering their vocation and identity as local public theologians. This involves thinking hard not only about pastors but also about churches. We must ask what pastors are for, but also, “Why is there church rather than nothing?” The church is a gathering of people, an assembly brought near to God by the blood of Jesus Christ (Eph 2:13), raised up with Christ “and
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