Mentoring: Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives

Positive mentoring relationships are held to be essential to the formation of strong Christian leaders—but why? How can theological and biblical insights inform mentoring relationships? And what do these vital relationships look like across a range of Christian experience? Opening multiple angles of vision on the practice of mentoring, Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison here present a group of eminent scholars who explore mentoring from biblical-theological perspectives, within the context of diverse national and international communities, and across generations.

D. Cameron Murchison is professor of ministry emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, where he also served as dean of faculty and executive vice president. Over the course of his career, he also taught at Union Presbyterian Seminary and pastored several churches.

Martin E. Marty (1928–2025) was the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, where he taught for thirty-five years. He also served for five decades as an editor for The Christian Century. A prolific writer, Marty authored more than sixty books, including Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America, which won the National Book Award. He was renowned for his work in the areas of religious history, religious pluralism, and public theology.