Spirituality And Pastoral Care

Download or read book Spirituality and Pastoral Care written by Kenneth Leech and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between personal spirituality and pastoral ministry, extolling the pastor's primary role as spiritual instructor to the parish. Leech shares with pastors and spiritual directors the important insights that counseling and psychotherapy lend to the process of spiritual direction. Leech amkes concrete his advice in spiritual formation by holding up the lives of four parish priests who were a great influence on his own spiritual development, and of whom the Church Times writes, All were gospel radicals.