The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways.

Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology.

The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) seeks to overcome this divide by assisting pastors in the study and production of biblical and theological scholarship for the theological renewal of the church and the ecclesial renewal of theology.

Based on the first CPT conference in 2015, this volume brings together the reflections of church leaders and academic theologians to considerhow pastoral ministry and theological scholarship might be reconnected once again.

The contributors consider several facets of the complex identity of the pastor theologian, including the biblical, public, and political dimensions of this calling. In addition, the essays explore the insights that can be gained from historical examples of pastor theologians—including John Calvin, John Henry Newman and Dietrich Bonhoeffer—as well as the essential role of Scripture within the ministry of thepastor theologian.



Gerald L. Hiestand (PhD, University of Reading) is the senior pastor at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the cofounder and director of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is coauthor of The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision and coeditor of Becoming a Pastor Theologian; Beauty, Order, and Mystery; and Creation and Doxology.







Todd Wilson is the president and cofounder of the Center for Pastor Theologians and the former senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church. He holds a PhD from University of Cambridge and is the author of Mere Sexuality and Real Christian, as well as coauthor of The Pastor Theologian. He and his family live in Oak Park, Illinois.



Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Identities of the Pastor Theologian

1. The Pastor Theologian as Biblical Theologian: From the Church for the Church

2. The Pastor Theologian as Political Theologian: Ministry Amidst theEarthly City

3. The Pastor Theologian as Public Theologian

4. The Pastor Theologian as Ecclesial Theologian

5. The Pastor Theologian as Cruciform Theologian



Part II: The Pastor theologian in Historical Perspective

6.Pastoral and Theological Leadership in Calvin's Geneva

7. Thomas Boston as Pastor Theologian

8. The Pastor Theologian as Mentor: The Legacy of John Henry Newman

9. The Ecclesial Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Part III: The Pastor Theologian and the Bible

10. The Pastor Theologian and the Interpretation of Scripture: A Call for Ecclesial Exegesis

11. The Pastor Theologian in the Pastoral Epistles

12. The Female Ecclesial Theologian

13. The Pastor Theologian as Apologist

14. The Pastor Theologian as Giver of Wisdom

15. John as Pastor Theologian: 2 John as Creative Theological Ecriture



List of Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index