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 theLight 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 -- Clergymen, 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Addresses of Contributors and Editors -- REVIEW SECTION -- Book Reviews -- Index to the Reviews -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Books Received.