The Pastor: A Spirituality

By Gordon W. Lathrop

Book Overview

Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors ? whatever and wherever they are called: preachers, priests, elders, ministers, seminarians.In Part One Lathrop urges pastors to become lifelong students of the Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, and the Commandments, continually inhabiting the questions, reversals and paradoxes of Christian life.In Part Two he elaborates on the pastor's chief activities ? presiding at the holy table, preaching, collecting for the poor ? "as the center and focus for pastoral identity and spirituality." Lathrop invites pastors to recenter their busy lives on God and fuel their ministry through prayer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800638018
• ISBN13: 9780800638016
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting, reflective and helpful.

I found this book to be a pleasure to read, and a great contribution to my own reflection on what my job (a pastor) is all about. I found it reassuring, and comforting, it helps to provide a real and credible focus to help me set priorities, and reassurance that I do not have to do it all. Read this book, it may straighten you out as well.

A "must read" for every parish pastor

Lathrop's short work is concise, but densely rich. His grasp of what it means to be the church is deep and abiding and gives us great hope for the future.