TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thanteeraphan, Soontorn 
TI  - The Life and Teaching of Ezekiel: A Prophetic Model for Pastoral Theology in the Thai Context
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Johannesburg, South Africa
PB  - South African Theological Seminary
N2  - Protestantism was established in Thailand over many centuries. The missionaries laid a  great  foundation  in  terms  of  education,  health  care,  as  well  as  social  work.  Their effort and energy were put toward enlarging God’s kingdom in Thailand. Many Thai scholars studied and developed an understanding of evangelising the Thai. At last, the Christian population in Thailand has reached 1.1 percent of the population. God has blessed  the  hard  work  of  Christian  members.  The  Thai clergy took on the  role of evangelising the gospel to the people of Thailand in addition to administration of the church,  visitation,  conflict  resolution,  ritual,  preaching  and much more. Insufficient effort  was  put  towards pastoral  care.  As  a  result,  Thai  Christians ‘commitment  and faithfulness to the church decreased significantly. This thesis set out to study the life and teaching of Ezekiel to provide a model that could serve  as  a  pastoral  theology  model  for  the  Thai  context.  The  study  took  two important  areas  of  the  prophet’s life,(1)Ezekiel’s identity—a  man  who  was  born, trained and lived with the people, and (2) Ezekiel’s role and function—an exegetical study  on  his  commission  as  watchman  over  Israel  found  in  Ezekiel  3:16–27,as a discussion of the understanding of the task and the responsibility of the watchman. The findings have been applied to the pastoral theology model in the Thai context. The model is an integration of the method of care from Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) matched  with  the  watchman  implication  from  Ezekiel. The  model  contains three phases: 1) Understanding Commission—the commission refers to the mandate in the role  of  minister  toward  pastoral  care, and  that  pastoral  care  skills  require  special training;  2)  Discovering  Identity—clergy  as people shaped  by  historical  context  and value  cluster,  immediate  context  with  family  and the influence of education  and operation context, and seeking the core value or spirituality that a minister needs to perform; and 3) Method of Care—a systematic method of showing how clergy could offer  care  with  cultural  consideration.  The  model  is  intended  to  become  another resource  for  the  Thai  clergy  as  they  are  fulfilling  their  commission  as  pastoral vi caregivers and raising the efficacy of care ability of Thai clergy that could result in the increment of Thai Christians ‘commitment and faithfulness to the church
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