Classical Pastoral Care

<p><i>Classic Pastoral Care</i> provides a topical arrangement of passages from classic Christian writings offering guidance on all major topics of pastoral theology. The four-volume set features writings from more than two hundred notable Christian authors--from Abelard and Ambrose to Isaac Watts and Zwingli--arranged in thirty topical sections.<br/><br/>Volume three <i>Pastoral Counsel</i> deals directly with the nature of the counseling relationship the metaphors of soul care (from medicine guidance and education) the elements of a therapeutic relationship the timing of good counsel pastoral discernment language and silence in counsel truth-telling and deception admonition and discipline care of the conscience anticipations of modern psychotherapy by classical writers and dynamics of the self-alienating will.</p>