Pastoral Theology: A Treatise on the Office and Duties of the Christian Pastor
Overview
Published shortly after his death, Pastoral Theology is a companion work to Fairbairn’s earlier Pastoral Epistles, and expounds upon practical themes such as the pastoral duties and social life of the pastor, the pastoral calling, different kinds of discourses, dealings with special cases, the administration of discipline, and much more. This volume also includes a biographical sketch of the late Patrick Fairbairn by Rev. James Dodds.
Top Highlights
“Study should be accompanied and blessed by prayer, otherwise it can never reach its end. On the other hand, prayer should be fed and sustained by study, otherwise the spirit of devotion itself will languish, and both prayer and preaching will become monotonous and languid. Proofs of this are not far to seek.” (Page 103)
“Christ Himself is the Shepherd of the entire flock; and the pastors whom He promised to provide, for whom He received gifts on finishing the work given Him to do,1 are the under shepherds who have to tend the flock in subordinate divisions, and distribute in due season the materials of life and blessing committed to their hand. It is their part to stand and minister in His name; to give themselves to the defence and the propagation of His gospel; to cause His voice, in a manner, to be perpetually heard and His authority respected; in a word, to direct the operations and ply the agencies which are fitted to bring those that are far off near to Christ, and to carry forward their advancement in the life of faith and holiness.” (Pages 4–5)
“So that every individual, when as a believer he connects himself with the membership of the Church, should feel as if entering a society that holds of heaven rather than of earth, a society in which all should drop, as they enter, the selfishness and corruption of nature, that they may mingle in the blessed harmony and communion of redeemed souls.” (Page 4)
“It helps to clear a man’s call, that there hath been a conscientious diligence in all the means of attaining fitness for this great work. That love to the end, which doth not conduct to the use of the appointed means, may justly be suspected as irregular, and not flowing from the Holy Ghost.” (Page 74)
- Title: Pastoral Theology: A Treatise on the Office and Duties of the Christian Pastor
- Author: Patrick Fairbairn
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 1875
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:PTRCKFRBRN03
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-04T21:53:53Z
