Our purpose in the Theology and Pastoral Care Series is to present ministers and church leaders with a series of readable books that will: (1) retrieve the theological and athical foundations of the Judeo Christian tradition for pastoral care; (2) develop lines of communitcation between pastoral theology and the other disciplines of theology; (3) create an ecumenical dialogue on pastoral care; and (4) do this in such a way as to affirm, yet go beyond, the recent preoccupation of pastoral care with secular psychotherapy and the other social sciences.