Parish Minister Research Articles

The parish minister as counselor: A dilemma and challenge

The parish minister as counselor: A dilemma and challenge

The Public Style of the Ministry: Methodological Considerations in a Study of Church and Community

The question informing our research is: How does the parish minister relate to the community in which his church is located? It is an inquiry into how a role, based in a specific institution, relates in practice to a more inclusive social unity of which the institution is a part. For our purpose "community" is defined as a specific geographical area, including its physical structure and its social process and organization, as well as its human participants. "Church" is the organized group of people of which the minister is the designated leader; a "church" can be located in a specific community by virtue of its meeting place, if not by residency of members.

Self-evaluation in the pastorate

In the absence of resources, then, for adequately supervised and continuous in-course training for the parish minister, it is suggested that he become his own supervisor for self-evaluation in the pastorate. Certain methods and disciplines have been proposed for such a venture. Nothing herein is intended to offer this kind of self-evaluation as a substitute for other resources, either clinical or devotional, available to aid the minister in appraising his vocational involvements. This proposal is simply set forth as another tried and perhaps more readily accessible way of improving that service to which the parish minister feels himself called.

Robert Leighton: The Bishop

In 1611, Robert Leighton was born into the era of the Church of Scotland's 1610 Accommodation between the Presbyterian and Episcopalian systems of church government. The Episcopalian Bishop of Dunblane and Archbishop of Glasgow between the ages of fifty and sixty, was the same man as had been the Presbyterian Parish Minister at Newbattle between the ages of thirty and forty. Leighton's especial significance is that he represents in his own person the very kind of accommodation which the signatories of the Joint Report on Anglican-Presbyterian Relations (1957) were aiming at, and which is an ecumenical possibility which will obviously continue to be explored.

Clinical pastoral training in an emergency psychiatric service

This paper reports the utilization of an emergency psychiatric service as a new factor in the clinical pastoral training experience. The usual pattern of clinical setting for these students is the hospital ward, where the patient has already been admitted and is making some adjustment to hospital routine and treatment. In such a setting the student misses the opportunity to see the patient at the crisis point of the illness and does not see the large numbers of individuals troubled enough to require psychiatric help but not sick enough to be hospitalized. The latter group constitute the largest portion seen by the parish minister even before psychiatric referral is arranged. During a twelve-week clinical pastoral training program, each student spent a major portion of his time for two of the weeks working on an emergency psychiatric service with a psychiatrist and social worker and seeing a large variety of patients, most of whom were not hospitalized. The experience provided an opportunity to develop evaluative skills and knowledge of appropriate community resources, and offered some experience in brief counseling under supervision. The clinical pastoral training student and the personnel of the emergency service all felt that this was an experience of mutual value and that it should be for a longer period. It is suggested that other clinical pastoral training programs would find it of value to utilize emergency psychiatric clinic settings where available.

Social Role and Role Conflicts of Protestant Parish Minister

1. One of our present-day problems is the.problem of personality disintegration, and three social causes of resulting in such a problem have been indicated. They are : a) Incongruent principles of behavior expectation between the primary and secondory groups ; b) Incompatible social expectations imposed upon the individual through his multi-group membership ; c) Multiple role expectations imposed upon one social status. The main concern of this paper is to introduce the problems of role conflict which contemporary Protestant parish ministers in the United States are confronting and required to solve them, by refering to the research materials collected by S. W.Blizzard. 2. From a theoretical point of view, the following three aspects have been discussed in order to conceptualize the problem of role conflict. 1) Under what conditions role conflict will take place ; this aspect makes clear the concept of role conflict ; 2) What factors are relevant to variations and intensity of role conflict ; 3) With what methods the individual tends to adjust, internally and externally, to role conflict. As to the first aspect, three types of role conflict have been classified : a) Self-role conflict, which emerges when role expectations are not reconciled with the structure of self, because of the mechanism of self-defense ; b) Role-role conflict, which takes place when the contents of more than two roles are incompatible between each other ; c) the third rype of role conflict occurs when the means for role performance become competitive and makes it difficult to distribute them properly to each role. For the second aspect, both personal and situational factors must be identified. Such factors as differences in self as a cognitive structure, personality type and personal competence may be important as a personal factor. The important situational factors which introduce variations in role conflct are role definition, group norms and group structure Whether role difinition in clear-cut or ambiguous, social sanctions are permissive or strict, group structure : in bureaucratic or informal, etc. As a mechanism of adjustment to conflicting situations, such psychological methods as rationalization, projection, isolation and so on may be mentioned. But, generally, they may be grouped into the following three : 1) negative adjustment (withdrawal); 2) positive adjustment ; 3) a compromised method, say, compartmentalization. Principle of hierarchization and segregation has been pointed out by J. Toby. 3. The main findings of Blizzard's research may be summarized as follows. Contemporary Protestant parish ministers are functionally playing six major practitioner roles : 1) Administrator role, 2) Organizer role, 3) Pastor role, 4) Preacher role, 5) Priest role, 6) Teacher role.The dilemma was found in the discrepance between two hierarchial orders of these six roles : the functional priority order and normative priority order. (S. W. Blizzard, “The Minister's Dilemma”). This is to say that ministers are forced to spend much of their time doing those things they feel are least important and which they are least motivated to do. Blizzard pointed out also several themes of related conflict : 1) A need for acquiring adequate emotional maturity and self-understanding ; 2) Being a man of belief and a saint is often challenged and jeopardized when the minister expresses ethical judgement as a prophet ; 3) Incongruent expectation being a man of action and a scholar of religion, a contemplative role ; 4) Discrepancies between the general practitioner expectation of the parishioner and the success image of denominational advancement which emphasizes a spicified roles ; and conflict between the obligations to family and obligations to job.

The Parish minister's self-image and variability in community culture

The Parish minister's self-image and variability in community culture

III: The Parish Minister of Christian Education

III: The Parish Minister of Christian Education

The Parish minister's self-image of his master role

The Parish minister's self-image of his master role

Outpatient pastoral counseling in a medical center.

The North Carolina Baptist Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College, employed a minister to work intensively with inpatients as a member of the faculty of the medical school. The outstanding advantage of locating a pastoral counseling service in a medical center is the availability of medical resources. Here comprehensive medicine provides a team approach to the individual. Counseling is a religious process in which the individual is helped to realize more nearly the full potentials of his own personality. A promising development that has grown out of this program has been the opportunity for research. It is in this area that institutional chaplains can render a real contribution to the parish minister who lacks the time and does not usually have access to the findings of specialized professional people.

The Protestant Parish Minister's Integrating Roles

1A shortened revision of a paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the American Association of schools of Religious Education, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 28, 1957.

Theology and the Parish Minister

Theology and the Parish Minister

THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT AND THE PARISH MINISTER

The Ecumenical ReviewVolume 9, Issue 1 p. 19-26 THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT AND THE PARISH MINISTER Hillyer H. Straton, Hillyer H. StratonSearch for more papers by this author Hillyer H. Straton, Hillyer H. StratonSearch for more papers by this author First published: October 1956 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1956.tb01779.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume9, Issue1October 1956Pages 19-26 RelatedInformation

Scottish Ministerial Orders

Presbyterianism has always tended to be a misleading name for the Reformed Church-order. It suggests the absence of any office superior to that which in Anglican and Roman terminology is called the priesthood; and as neither Roman nor Anglican priests possess power of ordination, it further suggests that Presbyterian clergy have never been able to ordain. Their orders are taken to be invalid from the start, and thus its mere name kills a Church. But the usual assumption, that the Scottish parish minister is equivalent (however imperfectly) to the English parish priest, is a distortion of both doctrine and practice in Scotland; and it is the chief purpose of this paper to maintain that when the ecclesiastical idioms of the two countries are translated, the minister must be called, not a parish priest, but a parish bishop.

Joseph Henry Maclagen Wedderburn, 1882 - 1948

Joseph H. M. Wedderburn, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., was found dead in his residence at Princeton on 9 October 1948. Professor Wedderburn who was a bachelor had, for many years, lived alone. His body was found by the people who took care of the house and grounds. The medical authorities concluded, after examination, that death had occurred several days previously as a result of a heart attack. Wedderburn was born on 26 February 1882, in Forfar, Scotland, the tenth child in a family of fourteen children, which included seven brothers and six sisters. His father was Alexander Stormonth Maclagen Wedderburn, M.D., of Pearsie. His mother was Anne Ogilvie. On his father’s side his grandfather was Parish Minister of Kinfauns and Professor of Exegesis in the Free Church College of Aberdeen. His paternal great-grandfather was Parish Minister of Blair Atholl and a Chaplain in the Black Watch. On his maternal side his grandfather was a lawyer in Dundee, as had been true of the family for several preceding generations. The detailed history of the Wedderburn family has been recorded in the Wedderburn Book . Of his many brothers and sisters only two survived him, a brother, Ernest Wedderburn of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a sister, Miss Elizabeth Wedderburn, of Paris, France. Wedderburn’s early school years were spent at the Forfar Academy from 1887 to 1895. In the latter year he transferred for the last three years of his school education to George Watson’s College in Edinburgh, 1895-1898. From this college at the age of sixteen and a half years he obtained the leaving scholarship and entered Edinburgh University in the autumn of 1898. After five years as a student in this university he obtained, in 1903, the M.A. degree with First-Class Honours in Mathematics.

Book Review: Spiritual Freedom or Catholicity. By the Rev. Roger S. Kirkpatrick, B.D. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. 6d; Article VIII.: Its Provisions and Safeguards. By a Parish Minister. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. 4d

Book Review: <scp>Spiritual Freedom or Catholicity</scp>. By the Rev. Roger S. Kirkpatrick, B.D. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. 6d; <scp>Article VIII.: Its Provisions and Safeguards</scp>. By a Parish Minister. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. 4d

On some Carboniferous Corals

Abstract I n the ‘History of Rutherglen and East Kilbride’ by the Rev. D. Ure, Parish Minister of East Kilbride, in Clydesdale, there is figured a cup-coral, the description of which refers only to the external form, and the name given to it was simply Fungites . Since then it has received various names from the following writers:— Fungites , Rev. D. Ure, Hist. of Ruth. &amp; East Kilb. p. 327, pl. 20. fig. 6: 1793. Turbinolia fungites , Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 510: 1828. S. Woodward, Syn. Tab. of Brit. Org. Rem. p. 7: 1830. Cyathophyllum fungites , Geinitz, Grund. der Verst. p. 571: 1845–6. Clisiophyllum prolapsum , M'Coy, Ann. &amp; Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. vol. iii. p. 3: 1849. Aulophyllum prolapsum , Edw. &amp; Haime, Brit. Foss. Corals, Introduction, p. 70: 1850. Aulophyllum fungites , Edw. &amp; Haime, Pol. Eoss. des Terr. Paléoz. p. 413: 1851. Clisiophyllum prolapsum , M'Coy, Brit. Palæoz. Foss. p. 95, Pl. 3C, fig. 5: 1851. Recent investigations into the internal structure warrant us in dissociating it from any of the generic names it has received, and raising it to the rank of an independent genus with a descriptive title. The author then gave descriptions of the genera Cyathophyllum, Clisiophyllum , and Aulophyllum , and of the new genus, Cyclophyllum (Duncan and Thomson). The characteristics of each of these genera are sufficiently marked to warrant their generic distinction. The ascending convex vesicular dissepiments in the middle area, the mesial columella in the vertical section, and consequently the exserted conical boss in the centre of the calice separate the genus Clisiophyllum from the other genera of Cyathophyllidæ. It differs from Cyathophyllum in the latter having no columella, the columellar space being filled up by closely set tabulæ. In Aulophyllum the tube-like mass in the centre of the corallum is occupied by minute tabulæ.

Notice of recent discoveries of Roman Remains at Cadder, on the Antonine Wall

Mr Buchanan discusses a section of the Antonine wall near Glasgow where antiquarians expected to find a Roman fort. Traditionally, it was assumed that this fort was located somewhere near the parish church of Cadder, although there is no mention of the fort in Gordon's 1726 text on Roman sites. Buchanan suggests that this fort was located between the wall and the parish minister's manse, based evidence from Hamilton of Wishaw's publication (1710) and on recent finds in the area. He lists some of these finds including a Roman causeway, various pieces of pottery and nails. An inscribed stone tablet that the author believes may have belonged to the Second Legion Augusta and what may have been the garrison well were also uncovered.