TheologyRediscovering the Office of Elder-The Shepherd Model, Part I
What does it mean to be an elder? Laverentz argues that for most of Presbyterian history, an elder was a shepherd of souls, deeply enmeshed in people's lives. Part one…
Journal Theology Matters Volume 24 · Issue 3 · Summer 2018
Rediscovering the Office of Elder. The Shepherd Model, Part II
Also in this issue
- Are You Ready For a Real Theologian?
- Luther, Calvin, and the Recovery of Congregational Singing. Is the Reformers' Legacy at Risk?
- Rediscovering the Office of Elder-The Shepherd Model, Part I
The Print Journal
2018 Summer
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In this issue
TheologyLuther, Calvin, and the Recovery of Congregational Singing. Is the Reformers’ Legacy at Risk?
Before the Reformation, Catholic worship had no congregational singing and no music in the language people actually spoke. Mills traces how Luther and Calvin recovered the song of the gathered…
TheologyAre You Ready For a Real Theologian?
Burnett uses Eugene Peterson's lesser-known The Wisdom of Each Other to think about the church as a supernatural community. Peterson's old friend Gunnar shows up after forty years of silence,…
TheologyRediscovering the Office of Elder. The Shepherd Model, Part II
Part two of the elder series opens with an 1898 Kansas City session quietly addressing one of their elders' moral failure with the kind of pastoral seriousness modern church courts…