Dutch Review of Church History, Volume 83 : Papers Read at the British-Dutch Colloquium at Utrecht, 18-21 September 2002.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PART ONE INTRODUCTION -- Introduction to Theme and Volume -- Opening Speech -- Searching for the Good Shepherd -- PART TWO THE ERA OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY -- The Requirements of the Pastor Bonus in the Late Middle Ages -- Requirements for Becoming and Remaining a Pastor: An Impression from the Late Medieval Synodal Statutes of the Diocese of Cambrai, 1308-1500 -- Pastoralia in Practice: Clergy and Ministry in pre-Reformation England -- The Good Pastor in Late Medieval Dutch Texts -- How to be a Good Shepherd in Devotio Moderna: The Example of Johannes Brinckerinck (1359-1419) -- PART THREE THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: THE ERA OF CONFESSIONALISATION -- From Catholic Priests to Protestant Ministers: Pastoral Education in the Diocese of York, 1520-1620 -- Preachers between Inspiration and Instruction: Dutch Reformed Ministers without Academic Education (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) -- Requirements for Dutch Reformed Ministers, 1570-1620 -- Ysbrandus Trabius' Sermon Het Cleyn Mostertzaet (1590) Examined on the Pastor's Profile -- The Reformed Pastor in English Puritanism -- Paragons of Piety: Representations of Priesthood in the Lives of the Haarlem Virgins -- "You are the Salt of the Earth and the Light of the World": Regulars, Seculars, and the Pastoral Care of New Catholics in the Upper Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War -- Good Pastors in the Missio Hollandica in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century -- 'The Minister's Calling': The Preparation and Qualification of Candidates for the Presbyterian Ministry in England, 1660-89 -- PART FOUR THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- Standards for Admission to the Ministry of the Church of England in the Eighteenth Century -- Supervising the Pastors: Supervision and Discipline of the Clergy in Norfolk in the Eighteenth Century.

Theologus Eruditus, Theologus Modestus: The Early Modern Pastor as Communication Worker -- An Opportunity Missed? The Provision of Education and Training for a Non-Graduate Clergy: Comparative Case Studies of the Dioceses of St. David's and Sodor and Man in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- PART FIVE THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- A Good Enough Parson: Early Nineteenth-Century, Dutch Discourse on Requirements for the Pastoral Ministry in the Reformed Church -- Movements toward Renewal: The Belgian Church and the Improvement of Clerical Education 1830-50 -- Theological Education at the Dutch Universities in the Nineteenth Century -- The Pastoral Ministry in the Anglican Church in England and Wales, c. 1840-1950 -- An Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Theological Training: The Lichfield Probationers' Scheme -- Gentlemen and Men: World War I and the Requirements, Recruitment, and Training of the Anglican Ministry -- Priesthood and Priestly Training in the Light of Vatican II: Visions and Expectations in the Low Countries -- Earrings behind the Altar? Anglican Expectations of the Ordination of Women as Priests -- PART SIX CLOSING -- Closing Speech -- Index of Names -- Addresses of Contributors and Editors -- REVIEW SECTION -- Book Reviews -- Index to the Reviews -- Books Received.

From earliest times the Western Church has fiercely debated questions about the place of the ministry within the Church and Church government. What requirements should be met by candidates for holy orders and what do we expect of priests and ministers: personal holiness, training for their calling, social skills or merely the possession of official ordination? The Church has at different times produced very different answers and the 30 scholars from Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, whose papers in this volume follow the course of the debate concerning the good shepherd from the early church through to modern times, show on the one hand what happens to Christian communities that have lost a clear view of the functions of the ministry and on the other just how much trust people have always placed in their priests and pastors. With contributions by Anton Weiler, Charles Caspers, Robert Swanson, Petty Bange, Mathilde van Dijk, Claire Cross, Fred van Lieburg, Ingrid Dobbe, Frank van de Pol, Eamon Duffy, Joke Spaans, Trevor Johnson, Gian Ackermans, David Wykes, Jeremy Gregory, W.M. Jacob, Joris van Eijnatten, Nigel Yates, David Bos, Leo Kenis, F.G.M. Broeyer, Frances Knight, John Tomlinson, Stuart Mews, Lieve Gevers and Ian Jones.

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