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Pastoral psychology

Here are entered works on the application by clergy in their pastoral work of modern psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy to the personal and spiritual problems of individuals.

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• Pastoral theology
• Psychology, Religious

• Pastoral counseling

• Clerical psychology
• Pastoral psychiatry
• Psychology, Clerical
• Psychology, Pastoral

• The Mental Health Ministry of the Local Church (1972), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Counseling for Liberation, by Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Competent to Minister: The Biblical Care of Souls (Santa Barbara, CA: EastGate Publishers, c1996), by Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan (PDF with commentary at psychoheresy.com)
• Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment (1975), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Counseling for Liberation, by Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• The Spirit of Counsel: Spiritual Perspectives in the Counselling Process, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal (expanded web edition), ed. by Steven C. Kettler (HTML at lettermen2.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Christian Pastorate, by Daniel P. Kidder (page images at MOA)
• King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (2 volumes, EETS original series 45 and 50; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1871-1872), by Pope Gregory I, ed. by Henry Sweet, trans. by King of England Alfred (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• The Office and Duty of a Christian Pastor, by Stephen H. Tyng (page images at MOA)
• That the Ministry Be Not Blamed: Lectures to Divinity Students in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow in the Spring of 1921 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1921), by John A. Hutton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Outward Bound: Caravaning as the Style of the Church, by Vernard Eller (HTML at hccentral.com)

• Preparation for Ordination: A Paper Read at Oxford, March 3, 1905, by B. W. Randolph (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

• General Directory for Catechesis (1997), by Catholic Church (HTML at the Vatican)
• General Catechetical Directory (1971), by Catholic Church (HTML at the Vatican)

• Sancti Gregorii Magni Papae, Liber Pastoralis Curae (in Latin; Rouen: Apud I. Crevel, 1618), by Pope Gregory I, contrib. by François de Harlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Homily of Saint Gregory the Great on the Pastoral Office (second thousand; Dublin and Waterford: M. H. Gill and Son; New York: Benziger Bros., 1908), by Pope Gregory I, trans. by Patrick Boyle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medico-Moral Problems (third printing; St. Louis: Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada, 1961), by Gerald Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gildas Salvianus, the First Part, i.e. The Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, Especially the Private Instruction and Catechizing, With an Open Confession of Our Too Open Sins (London: Printed by R. White for N. Simmons, 1656), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Priest to the Temple: or, The Country Parson, His Character and Rule of Holy Life (1652), by George Herbert (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• Gildas Salvianus, the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, Especially the Private Instruction and Catechising, With an Open Confession of Our Too Open Sins (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1860), by Richard Baxter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reformed Pastor, by Richard Baxter (HTML at reformedreader.org)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Trinity Seminary Review (with other TLS publications) (partial serial archives)

• The Education of Colored Preachers: A Sermon Preached at the Anniversaries in Chicago, May 21, 1871, at the Request of the Board of the American Baptist Home Mission Society (Charleston, SC: Printed at the office of the "Working Christian", ca. 1871), by E. T. Winkler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sermon Under Attack (Exeter, UK: Paternoster Press, c1983), by K. Runia (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• The Ecology of Faith, by Joseph Sittler (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Papers on Preaching and Public Speaking: By a Wykehamist (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), by George J. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style (London: Rivingtons, 1865), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ueber das Extemporiren der Predigten (in German; Hannover: Gebrudern Hahn, 1817), by Johann Heinrich Fritsch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yale Lectures on Preaching (New York, J. B. Ford and Co., 1872), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Christian Doctrine, by Saint Augustine of Hippo (multiple formats at CCEL)

• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (New York: The Viking Press, 1927), by James Weldon Johnson, illust. by Aaron Douglas and C. B. Falls
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • multiple formats at Google
• John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Tropologia: A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four Books; To Which Are Prefixed, Arguments to Prove the Divine Authority of the Holy Bible, Together With Types of the Old Testament (1858), by Benjamin Keach
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Treasury of David, by C. H. Spurgeon (HTML at crosswalk.com)

• Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (third edition, 1831), by Henry Ware (HTML at americanunitarian.org)

• Mein Kampf ums Recht: Eine Streitschift Gegen Vorstand und Repräsentanz der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin (in German; Berlin: Typ. Rosenthal, 1907), by Emil Cohn
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by David B. Ruderman (HTML at UC Press)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Uncharted Way: The Psychology of The Gospel Doctrine (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., c1940), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Maladies du Sentiment Religieux (second edition, in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1903), by Ernest Murisier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Social Law in the Spiritual World: Studies in Human and Divine Inter-Relationship (Philadelphia et al.: John C. Winston Co., c1904), by Rufus M. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• De Quelques Coeurs Inquiets: Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse (in French; Paris: Societe Litteraire de France, ca. 1919), by François Mauriac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Lebenskräfte des Evangeliums: Missionserfahrungen Innerhalb des Animistischen Heidentums (third edition, in German: Berlin: M. Warneck, 1908), by Joh. Warneck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Lebenskräfte des Evangeliums: Missionserfahrungen Innerhalb des Animistischen Heidentums (fourth edition, in German: Berlin: M. Warneck, 1911), by Joh. Warneck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heavenly Bridegrooms, by Ida C. Craddock (HTML at idacraddock.org)
• The Living Christ and Dying Heathenism: The Experiences of a Missionary in Animistic Heathendom (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., ca. 1909), by Joh. Warneck, trans. by Neil Buchanan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mind of God (New York et al.: F. H. Revell and Co., c1917), by Elwin Lincoln House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religion and Experience (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham; New York: Eaton and Mains, 1906), by J. Brierley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at Psych Web
• Religion, Altered States Of Consciousness, and Social Change (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1973), by Erika Bourguignon (PDF at Ohio State)
• Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism (new and revised edition; New York: Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing, 1955), contrib. by Bill W. (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.