Journal of Pastoral Theology

The mission of the Journal of Pastoral Theology is:

to further the understanding of pastoral theology as a theological discipline and to clarify the nature of the discipline.
to maintain a view of pastoral theology as a constructive theology growing out of the exercise of caring relation ships, with attention both to present lived experience and to knowledge derived from the past;
to provide an intentional forum for the voices of diverse persons, women and men, of many cultural and ethnic backgrounds;
to foster multi-cultural understandings of issues in the discipline;
to promote and encourage multi-discipline/multi-cultural research in the field of pastoral theology;
to provide resources for those who teach and those who study, through recording current research and assessing the relevant literature;
to provide for the construction of sound theological principles for guidance and critique of pastoral practice; and to work creatively, synthesizing and constructing, to define the frontiers and parameters of the discipline.