#6 - Understanding Ministerial Leadership: Essays Contributing to a Developing Theology of Ministry

These essays are intended as a corrective to an earlier emphasis on the ministry of the whole people, and instead emphasize the ministry of those who are called out, set apart, trained, and ordained.

Contents:

• Preface (John A. Esau)
• Recovering, Rethinking, and Reimagining … Mennonite Theology for Christian Ministry (Esau)
• Helping Dreams Come True: Towards Wholeness—Articulating the Vision (Erick Sawatzky)
• Ministerial Status and the Theology of Ministry (Rodney J. Sawatsky)
• Inner Call/Inner Ambivalence (Renee Sauder)
• Reflections on Pastoral Ministry and Pastoral Education (Marlin E. Miller)
• The Mutuality of Ministry (Lydia Neufeld Harder)
• Clarifying the Pastoral Role “On the Fly” (Duane Beck)
• Re-institutionalizing the Pastorate: A Proposal for Attracting More Able Candidates … (Ardean L. Goertzen)
• An Emerging Theology of Ministry: Incarnational Presence (Marcus Smucker)
• The Credibility of Leadership (George R. Brunk III)