The Church and the Social Services

Abstract

W E WERE chatting in my host's study after coffee.He was the principal of a well-known theological college and I a visiting speaker from an &dquo;outside organisa-tion&dquo;. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the conversation turned at one point on the difficulty of fitting &dquo;extras&dquo; into an already over-crowded syllabus.My host, however, was fully alive to the importance of doing so. For him a course of lectures by visiting experts on pastoral psychology was a 'sine qua non'. But that was not all. Every ye…