Rabbi - Pastor - Priest : : Their Roles and Profiles Through the Ages / / ed. by Walter Homolka, Heinz-Günther Schöttler.

Both Judaism and Christianity have authorized clergy, charged with fulfilling a multitude of tasks in their respective communities. They teach, provide pastoral care, and preach. They lead worship, hold services and offer counseling regarding all aspects of life. They perform religious rites at the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (377 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Inhalt
  • Preface
  • The Talmudic Rabbi as Holy Man
  • Offices? Roles, Functions, Authorities and Their Ethos in Earliest Christianity: A Look into the World of Pauline Communities
  • Insights into the Christian Office in Late Antiquity
  • Men of Knowledge and Power: A Tentative Profile of Medieval Rabbis
  • Change or Continuity? How the Reformation Changed the Role of the Pastor
  • Modern Rabbinical Training: Intercultural Invention and Political Reconfiguration
  • Rabbis as Preachers, 1800–1965: Regensburg Conference Lecture
  • The Professionalization of the American Rabbinate
  • The Protestant Pastoral Office: Its Self-Understanding and Its Challenges Today
  • Whom Does the Priest Represent? The Theology of the Ordained Ministry Following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)
  • The Protestant Pastor and the Communication of the Gospel: Public Ministry in the Present Protestant Church
  • A Female Rabbi Is Like an Orange on the Passover Plate. Women and the Rabbinate: Challenges and Horizons
  • Functional Secularization and Conversion: On the Changed Demands Made on Ministerial Action in the Catholic Church
  • Islamic Clerics: Tradition and Transition
  • “… Invited to Preach to the People” (Origen): A Theological Plea for “Lay” Preaching in the Catholic Church
  • Word Workers: The Rabbinate and the Protestant Pastoral Office in Dialogue
  • The Modern Community Rabbi in Germany: Towards the Development of a Contemporary Occupational Profile
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Abbreviations
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects