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Title: Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0-8028-0265-6 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Echo My Friend's Review
Comment: I have a friend who is a professor at a school of religion. He helps to train our next generation of pastors. He once told me that "Working the Angles" was one of the best books on Pastoral Theology he had read and by far Peterson's best work. I don't think I would go as far as he did with my praise, but this certainly is a book worth owning. It will help you get back to the basics.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, But Not Great
Comment: This title is the second one I have read by Peterson. I frankly was disappointed with lack of applicable content. He does address pastors directly, but he seems to ramble when he could be making one point after another. Most pastors will find something in his words of value. I did. For the nuggets of truth this book does contain, I give it three stars. Still, Peterson seems to be capable of doing so much better.
There is no doubt that Peterson is a man of God who has a message for the people of this age. I just sensed that the "thus saith the Lord" was garbled somewhere between the prophet and the written proclamation. For the money, this title is a good, but not great, read for pastors and other church leaders.
Rating: 3
Summary: Pray, Read and Talk. Could be better
Comment: Eugene Peterson has been thinking about it for a long time and has some advice for pastors out there. Before he gives the advice, he has some words of criticism for them: they've been sucked into the world of "respected" professionals who let money or comfort dictate their career decisons (e.g. the ambulance-chasing lawyer, the salesman who tells you what you want to hear just so he gets the sale). He admonishes pastors who have a similar mentality and advises them to work on their prayer life (especially the Psalms), read the Bible with more fervor, and find a "spiritual counsleor"-- someone who can guide you towards a closer relationship with God.
Of course pastors need to read the Bible and pray! This is no new revelation! He did make me more interested in reading the Psalms, though. The section on "how to read" was not to my liking, either. The section on the importance of finding a spritiual mentor, however was quite interesting. Americans seem to have a fascination with Teddy Roosevelt-style "Rugged Individualism." This apparently carries over to the pastor who now thinks he has to be a strong leader of the church instead of realizing that Christ himself acted like a servent for us. He even humbled himself to wash his disciples feet and act as our "whipping boy"--taking a punishment that was rightfully ours as he died on the cross.
While I whole-heartedly say that Peterson's last section was the best, there are some good points to his first two sections. I already mentioned a new respect for the Psalms; in fact, the word "respect" is the key theme for most of Peterson's book. Respect the fact that, when you pray, you are talking to your Creator and Redeemer! Don't take that lightly! When you read the Bible, realize that it's your Creator and Redeemer talking with you! Don't read it lightly! That pretty much sums up Peterson's book.
Read the introduction to this at your library or bookstore. If you're really into the book after that, go ahead and buy it. Be warned, however, this is Peterson's best writing in "Working the Angles" and the prose kind of goes downhill from there.
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Title: The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802801145 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802806600 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802808484 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call by Marva J. Dawn, Eugene H. Peterson, Peter Santucci ISBN: 0802846785 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: If It Could Happen Here: Turning the Small Membership Church Around by Jeff Patton, Jeffrey H. Patton, Bill Easum ISBN: 0687030331 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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