Our purpose in the Theology and Pastoral Care Series is to present ministers and church with a series of readable books that will (1) retrieve the theological and ethical foundations of the Judeo Christian tradition for pastoral care, (2) develop line of communication between pastoral theology and the other disciplines of theology, (3) create an ecumenical dialog 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.