Faculty and Friends of Old Princeton, The Pastor: His Call, Character, and Work. Banner of Truth, 2021. 272 pages.
When a young man expresses interest in pursuing pastoral ministry, what resources can a pastor use to direct and encourage him?
The Pastor: His Call, Character, and Work by the faculty and friends of “Old” Princeton is full of biblical reflection and practical wisdom that would benefit any pastor and especially the young, aspiring minister.
Source and Structure
The Pastor includes a sample of selections from the much larger two-volume, fourteen-hundred-page Princeton and the Work of the Christian Ministry published by Banner of Truth in 2012.
The authors are “all men closely associated either as students, professors, or in one case a director, with Princeton Theological Seminary.” You may be familiar with some of their names, such as Archibald Alexander or Charles Hodge. If not, don’t worry. A unique and enjoyable feature of the book is that Banner includes a biographical sketch and portrait of each contributor at the back of the volume.
You may have come across Alexander’s The Truth, Inspiration, and Authority of Scripture or Hodges’s well-known three-volume Systematic Theology. The Pastor reveals the pastoral heart these men
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