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• Pastoral theology
• Early works to 1800

• Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800

• 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)

• 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)

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)

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

• 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 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 at pamweb.org)
• 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)

• 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 Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

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