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The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many pastors today see themselves primarily as counselors, leaders, and motivators. Yet this often comes at the expense of the fundamental reality of the pastorate as a theological office. The most important role is to be a theologian mediating God to the people. The church needs pastors who can contextualize the Word of God to help their congregations think theologically about all aspects of...

KEVIN J. VANHOOZER “Societies become secular not when they dispense with religion altogether, but when they are no longer especially agitated by it.”1 The church, the society of Jesus, is similarly in danger of becoming secular, and in the very place where we would least expect it: its understanding of the clergy. This is not because churches are dispensing with the pastorate, but because they no longer find its theological character particularly
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