1. Hiltner seeks to distinguish this healing orientation from any references to the counselor's own point of view inPreface to Pastoral Theology (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958), pp. 55?69. As we will see in a later text these distinctions are not upheld in the Bible or the tradition of pastoral care and counseling. They were developed in the 1940s to accommodate pastoral counseling to the popular methodology of Carl Rogers.
2. Tilden Edwards,Spiritual Friend, (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), pp. 33ff.
3. Kenneth Leech,Soul Friend (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 99ff.
4. Psalm 16:1, Isaiah 16:3, Jer. 49:7, Acts 20:27, Eph. 1:11.
5. Rodney J. Hunter, ?The Future of Pastoral Theology,?Pastoral Psychology 29:1 (Fall 1960): 65.