Edification-Journal of the Society of Christian Psychology: Volume 1 Issue 2 2007: 01 (Ray S. Anderson Collection)

THE RAY S. ANDERSON COLLECTION by WIPF & STOCK PUBLISHERS Ray Sherman Anderson (1925-2009) worked the soil and tended the animals of a South Dakota farm planted and pastored a church in Southern California and completed a PhD degree in theology with Thomas F. Torrance in New College Edinburgh. He began his professional teaching career at Westmont College and then taught and served in various administrative capacities at Fuller Theological Seminary for thirty-three years (retiring as Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ministry). While teaching at Fuller he served as a parish pastor always insisting that theology and ministry go hand-in-hand. The pastoral theologian who began his teaching career in middle age penned twenty-seven books. Like Karl Barth Prof. Anderson articulated a theology of and for the church based on Gods own ministry of revelation and reconciliation in the world. As professor and pastor he modeled an incarnational evangelical passion for the healing of humanity by Jesus Christ who is both Gods self- revelation to us and the reconciliation of our broken humanity to the triune God. His gift of relating suffering and alienated humans to Christ existing as community (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) is a recurrent motif throughout his life ministry and works. The Ray S. Anderson Collection comprises books by Ray Anderson an introductory text to his theology by Christian D. Kettler two edited volumes that celebrate his distinguished academic career (��ncarnational ��inistr�� The Presence of Christ in Church Society and Family and On Being Christian . . . and Human) and a reprint of an E��ification volume that focuses on Ray Andersons contributions to the field of Christian Psychology. A word of gratitude is due to The Society of Christian Psychology and its parent organization The American Association for Christian Counselors for their permission to make the E��ification issue available in book form. Jim Tedrick of Wipf and Stock Publishers deserves a special word of thanks for publishing many of Ray Andersons books and commissioning this collection of works to continue his legacy. Todd H. Speidell General Editor