1. Preface

   • Donald Capps
   • Robert C. Dykstra

   Preface Pages: 3 - 3

2. Some Accidents, Coincidents, and Intents: A Vocational Narrative

   • James E. Dittes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 16

3. James E. Dittes: A Professional Portrait

   • Donald Capps

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 49

4. The Church: Intransit and Intransigent

   • Allan Hugh Cole Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 67

5. The Vocation of Ministry: Grief, Groans, and Grace

   • Carol L. Schnabl Schweitzer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 80

6. Pastoral Counseling: The Art of Ascetic Witnessing

   • Brita L. Gill-Austern

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 96

7. In the Spirit of William James

   • Roger A. Johnson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 110

8. Maturing into Boyhood: James E. Dittes on Men and Meaning

   • Robert C. Dykstra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 121

9. Prejudice, Prodigality, and the Precariousness of Life

   • Donald Capps

   OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 145

10. Reveling in Complexity: Dittes' Male Metaphors and Their Bearing on the Crisis of Clergy Sexual Abuse

    • John McDargh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 161

11. Listening to the Nos

    • Barbara Brown Taylor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 171

12. The Professor and the Saint

    • Paul Elledge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 183

13. Books and Articles by James E. Dittes

    Bibliography Pages: 185 - 189