Letters to a Young Pastor: Timothy Conversations Between Father and Son

Year 2020
Type Letter
Genre pastoral theology
Tradition Evangelical
Original language English

For For pastors, especially young ones, who want honest counsel on the pastoral life from a father to his son; not a manual of church practice.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 1 of 5 light

Letters from Peterson to his son Eric, a pastor, on the concerns of the pastoral life. Personal and practical.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 0 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 5 of 5
Sociological 3 of 5
Historical 1 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A collection of letters Peterson wrote over the years to his son Eric E. Peterson, himself a Presbyterian pastor, published by NavPress in 2020 under both their names. The letters take up, as the title's echo of Paul's letters to Timothy suggests, the concerns of a pastor's life: the congregation, preaching, prayer, discouragement and the slow work of a calling in one place. It is the most personal of his books on ministry after The Pastor (2011).

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