Find more facts and information on our topic page about
pastoral
pastor
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
|
1996
|
|
© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information)
Copyright
pastor †shepherd; shepherd of souls XIV. — AN. OF.
pastour (mod.
pasteur), acc. of
pastre (mod.
pâtre) :— L.
pāstor,
-ōr-, f. *
pās-, extended form of *
pā- in
pāscere feed, graze; see
-TOR.
So
pastoral pert. to shepherds XV; pert. to a spiritual pastor XVI; sb. pastoral play or poem XVI. — L.
pāstōrālis.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
Pastoral, temperance, and the unitary self in Wroth's Urania.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Wroth's Urania is usually described as a "pastoral romance," but there has been little attention...of Philip Sidney's (at least partly) pastoral Arcadia. (1) Wroth's deployment of pastoral is certainly in part an answer to Arcadia...
|
|
Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvel!, Milton.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; Susan Snyder. Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvel!, Milton. Stanford: Stanford...3106-3. After distinguishing between two types of pastoral -- spatial or "Arcadian" pastoral, which focuses on an idyllic retreat from the complexities...
|
|
Pastoral Ministry according to Paul: A Biblical Vision
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Pastoral Ministry according to Paul: A Biblical...growth of the institution, the vision for pastoral ministry is essentially a theological...discussed, Thompson believes that Paul's pastoral vision should be central to the discussion...
|
|
The pastoral: first and last things.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...progress--JOHN KOETHE I WANT TO BE SPECIFIC HERE IN DEFINING "PASTORAL." I intend my references to be directed to pastoral as a noun rather than an adjective. The Pastoral. For indeed, there are also pastoral elegies, pastoral odes...
|
|
|
Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Judith Haber's compact, stimulating Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction...the persistence of the antipastoral in pastoral poetry," especially in Renaissance...pastoralism has been a feature of the pastoral since its Theocritean origins. Fundamentally...
|
|
The Pastoral Nature of Theology: An Upholding Presence
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; The Pastoral Nature of Theology: An Upholding Presence...theology always has and still arises out of pastoral concern" (p. x). His basic premise...and "applied" theology that suggests pastoral theology is somehow distilled from the...
|
|
An epistolary pastoral/ an introduction.(Editorial)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...is, I would like to cultivate--the term pastoral, rooted in care, ecumenism, and a symbiosis...is consonant with your own idea of radical pastoral and your motives for reviving pastoral concerns in contemporary culture. Throughout...
|
|
|
What Is Pastoral?
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...ISBN: 0-226-0156-5. What is Pastoral? presents Paul Alpers's corrective...naive and sentimental poetry, that "pastoral is motivated by naive idyllicism," (ix) and the prevailing tendency "to use 'pastoral' with ungoverned inclusiveness" (ix...
|
|
Reconstructing Pastoral Theology.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 7/26/2005; ; 700+ words
; Reconstructing Pastoral Theology. By Andrew Purves. Westminster...is the Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary...also because it is a frontal assault on pastoral theology and care since the era of Seward...
|
|
What is Pastoral?
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; What is Pastoral? By PAUL ALPERS. Chicago and London...p. 6). Alpers tries to recover pastoral as 'part of the way we value and understand...12, 59, 60), is the treatment of pastoral in recent criticism which makes it interesting...
|
|
pastoral
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pastoral literary work in which the shepherd...artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction...and politics, have been presented in pastoral settings. In music, the pastorale is...
|
|
Pastoral
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Pastoral, dramatic form which evolved in Italy from pastoral poetry by way of the dramatic eclogue or shepherds' play. There were pastoral elements in early plays, but the first true pastoral was Tasso's Aminta (1573), which was widely...
|
|
Pastoral Epistles
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Pastoral Epistles The three letters of the NT placed...Timothy and that to Titus ‘Pastoral Epistles’, the name has stuck...concern they exhibit for a certain number of pastoral situations in the Church. There is a...
|
|
Pastoral Epistles, the
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Pastoral Epistles, the. A designation for the Epistles to Timothy and Titus (q.v.).
|
|
Pastoral Sonata
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Pastoral Sonata. Publisher's name for Beethoven's pf. sonata No.15 in D major, Op.28, comp. 1801 (presumably because of rustic rhythm in finale).
|
