{"product_id":"the-pastor-a-spirituality-9780800698355","title":"The Pastor: A Spirituality","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLathrop, Gordon W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordon W. Lathrop\u003c\/strong\u003e has served as a parish pastor, as professor of liturgy at Wartburg Theological Seminary and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and as visiting professor at Yale Divinity School, the Virginia Theological Seminary, the University of Iceland, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Pontifical Thomas Aquinas University in Rome. His books from Fortress Press include \u003cem\u003eThe Pastor: A Spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eHoly People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology \u003c\/em\u003e(1999), and, with Timothy Wengert, \u003cem\u003eChristian Assembly \u003c\/em\u003e(2004). He has been president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and the international Societas Liturgica.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461083500818,"sku":"9780800698355","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b7569b4-9fa3-4a2e-8772-9292bc4d8f56.jpg?v=1730056118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pastor-a-spirituality-9780800698355","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}