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| Introduction | |
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| A Framework for Pastoral Ethics | |
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| Promise-making | |
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| Aspects of Professional Commitment | |
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| Ethics and the More Excellent Way | |
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| The Ethics of Pastoral Leadership | |
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| Faithful Integrity | |
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| Leadership Within, Not Above | |
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| Leadership Style | |
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| An Ethics of Management | |
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| Mediating Within the Oikumene | |
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| Creative Leadership and Ethical Restraint | |
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| The Ethics of Preaching and Teaching | |
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| Fidelity in Preaching | |
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| Responsibility to and with Scripture | |
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| Integrity in Preaching | |
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| Freedom of the Pulpit--and Pew | |
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| Preaching on Social Issues | |
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| In Sum: The Promise of Preaching | |
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| Ethical Concerns in Pastoral Care | |
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| The Moral Setting for Pastoral Care | |
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| Contract and Availability | |
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| Who Are in the "Parish"? | |
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| Referral | |
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| Professional Distance | |
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| The Minister as Moral Counselor | |
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| Applications in Pastoral Care | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| A Long Tradition | |
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| Telling the Truth with Dying Patients | |
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| Cross Gender Pastoral Care and Counseling | |
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| Sexual Contact with Parishioners | |
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| Clergy Adultery and Divorce | |
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| Serving as Reference | |
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| Independent Pastoral Counseling | |
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| Financing Ministry | |
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| Ambiguities | |
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| Moonlighting and Tent Making | |
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| The Erosion of Clergy Pay | |
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| Fees and Honoraria | |
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| Guidelines | |
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| Fund Raising | |
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| Clergy Unions | |
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| Evaluation and Increments | |
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| The Simple Life | |
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| Relationships with Other Clergy | |
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| Relations to Successors | |
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| Competition | |
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| Ecumenical Ethics | |
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| The Assistant, the Associate, and the Interim | |
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| Colleagueship | |
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| References | |
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| Community Outreach and Social Action | |
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| Recent History | |
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| Dilemmas of Public Ministry | |
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| Public Ministry Imperatives | |
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| Some Axioms and Obligations | |
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| Church and State | |
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| Partisan Politics and the Pastor | |
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| Corporate Church and Individual Pastor | |
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| Public Relations, Evangelism, and Church Growth | |
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| Four Affirmations | |
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| Professional Perspective | |
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| Method in Evangelism and Promotion | |
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| Principles of Action | |
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| Personal Life | |
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| Freedom of Self: the Public-Private Boundary | |
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| Congruence | |
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| Time for Work and Family | |
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| "Distance" and Availability | |
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| Professional Growth | |
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| Prayer | |
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| A Brief Postscript: "But is the Ministry a Profession?" | |
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| An Ambiguous Word | |
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| "Professional" More Positively Defined | |
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| Institution and Ordained Ministry | |
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| In Sum: Commitment and Competence | |
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| Approaches to Pastoral Ethics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |