pastor: "odd jumble of undisciplined plurality”

 “In the course of our research into the early church we found not a single system of pastoral thought and action but instead an odd jumble of duties and ideologies variously interrelated, with different emphases in different times and places. It looks quite modern in its undisciplined plurality” -p 2, The Pastor: Readings from the Patristic Period (Fortress: 1990), Philip L. Culbertson and Arthur Bradford Shippee (eds)