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Ecclesianarchy

Author : John Williams
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334059801
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesianarchy written by John Williams and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic thinking about ministry and mission has tended to focus on the challenges of communication and presentation. Less attention has been paid to the effects that this thinking has on ministry. There is an unacknowledged dilemma for churches insofar as they are caught between the challenge to re-shape ministry in response to cultural change and the belief that there are certain God-given, immutable foundations for ministerial order that must be retained. Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, this book brings theological and practical insight to bear on the question of ministry’s provisionality. In the end, it asks, is the only way through this dilemma a kind of Ecclesianarchy?

Ecclesianarchy

Author : John Williams
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334059828
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesianarchy written by John Williams and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, 'Ecclesianarchy' brings theological and practical insight to bear on the question of ministry's provisionality.

Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1

Author : Nigel Rooms
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666715891
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesial Futures: Volume 2, Issue 1 written by Nigel Rooms and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecclesial Futures publishes original research and theological reflection on the development and transformation of local Christian communities and the systems that support them as they join in the mission of God in the world. We understand local Christian communities broadly to include traditional “parish” churches and independent local churches, religious communities and congregations, new church plants, so-called “fresh expressions” of church, “emergent” churches, and “new monastic” communities. We are an international and ecumenical journal with an interdisciplinary understanding of our approach to theological research and reflection; the core disciplines being theology, missiology, and ecclesiology. Other social science and theological disciplines may be helpful in supporting the holistic nature of any research, e.g., anthropology and ethnography, sociology, statistical research, biblical studies, leadership studies, and adult learning. The journal fills an important reflective space between the academy and on-the-ground practice within the field of mission studies, ecclesiology, and the so-called “missional church.” This opportunity for engagement has emerged in the last twenty or so years from a turn to the local (and the local church) and, in the western world at least, from the demise of Christendom and a rapidly changing world—which also affects the church globally. The audience for the journal is truly global wherever the local church and the systems that support them exists. We expect to generate interest from readers in church judicatory bodies, theological seminaries, university theology departments, and in local churches from all God’s people and the leaders amongst them.

The Humble Church

Author : Martyn Percy
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786223171
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Humble Church written by Martyn Percy and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself – its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence – and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in order to become more like Christ? As Christ poured out his life for the sake of others, he considers ways in which the Church might imitate Christ in practice today. Whenever Jesus visited anywhere beyond the confines of the Jewish community he immediately became socially useful, and so this extols such virtues as humble service in the community, not because it is an effective way to grow the Church, but because it is faithful to Christ’s own example. Avoiding responses such as exasperation, righteous anger at shortcomings or wishful thinking about returning to the past, he sets out a vision for the Church's future that is both biblical and christological. Incisive, imaginative and engagingly written, this will resonate deeply with many lay and ordained members of the Church.

When Jesus Calls

Author : Marcus Throup
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786224534
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book When Jesus Calls written by Marcus Throup and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jesus Calls considers the new approach to vocation in the Church of England and offers a guide for those who are exploring a call to licensed ministry, lay and ordained, and for those with responsibility for encouraging and discerning vocations. It introduces the categories of the Church’s new discernment framework, and brings them into conversation with the historic Anglican understanding of priestly vocation (the Ordinal) and the wider missional ‘manifesto’ of the Anglican Communion (the Five Marks of Mission). Its unique approach offers a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment which is attuned to the ‘simpler, humbler, bolder’ vision of the post-pandemic Church of England. It will be an essential resource for every diocesan vocations team and will also have value as a basic text for Anglican ministerial theology in IME 1.

For the Good of the Church

Author : Gabrielle Thomas
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334060605
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book For the Good of the Church written by Gabrielle Thomas and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we need to learn and receive from the other to help us address challenges or wounds in our own tradition? That is the key question asked in what has come to be known as ‘receptive ecumenism’. And nowhere is this question more pressing and pertinent than in women’s experiences within the church. Based on qualitative research from five focus groups, 'For the Good of the Church' expose the difficulties women face when they work in a church – sexism, unfulfilled vocation, and abuse of power and privilege, as well as the wide range of gifts and skills which women bring in light of these. The second part of the book continues to draw on the particular wounds and gifts, which arise in the focus groups. Specific case studies are used to identify gifts of theology, practice, experience, vocation and power. Against negative prognoses of an ‘ecumenical winter’, Gabrielle Thomas reveals how radically different theological and ecclesiological perspectives can be a space for learning and receiving gifts for the well-being of the whole Church.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ita to Lor

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ita to Lor written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopædia Britannica: L-Lord Advocate

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica: L-Lord Advocate written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopædia Britannica

Author : Paul Robert Kruse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Paul Robert Kruse and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopædia Britannica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Christ Unabridged

Author : George Westhaver
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334058309
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Christ Unabridged written by George Westhaver and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep and scholarly study on the person of Christ as Son of Man from an impressive array of key theological and philosophical thinkers, including NT Wright, Lydia Schumacher and Oliver O'Donovan. Poetic interludes from renowned poet and scholar Malcolm Guite creatively shed a different light on the subject.

Doing Theology in the New Normal

Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334060656
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Doing Theology in the New Normal written by Jione Havea and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responses to the recent pandemic have been driven by fear, with social distancing and locking down of communities and borders as the most effective tactics. Out of fear and strategies that separate and isolate, emerges what has been described as the “new normal” (which seems to mutate daily). Truly global in scope, with contributors from across the world, this collection revisits four old responses to crises – assure, protest, trick, amend – to explore if/how those might still be relevant and effective and/or how they might be mutated during and after a global pandemic. Together they paint a grounded, earthy, context-focused picture of what it means to do theology in the new normal.

The Church's Other Half

Author : Trevor Beeson
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048753
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Church's Other Half written by Trevor Beeson and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have always constituted at least half of the church’s membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership. After the example of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities were wholly inclusive in their organisation, but a patriarchal model derived from the pattern of the secular Greco-Roman societies was soon adopted. This restricted women to subordinate roles from which the struggle to escape continues.

Models of the Church

Author : Avery Dulles
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385505450
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Models of the Church written by Avery Dulles and published by Image. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.

Developing Faithful Ministers

Author : Tim Ling
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048893
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Developing Faithful Ministers written by Tim Ling and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Faithful Ministers aims to support the work of all those involved in supervision and training relationships within the Church. The Church recognising its call to serve God and the nation seeks to equip and develop its ministers to face the challenge of ministry in a society at the threshold of Christendom that is in a mission context. It is a context where both the general public and the institutional church have significant expectations of those in ministry. Indeed, there is now an expectation of ‘demonstrable capability’ prior to being licensed to any form of permanent tenure. The demand for more professional, demonstrably capable, mission able and collaborative licensed ministers places particular weight on the efficacy of the initial training relationship. "Developing Faithful Ministers" seeks to support those who find themselves in these relationships by offering both models of good practice and sustained theological reflection on what these drivers mean for developing ministry.

Igniting the Heart

Author : Kate Bruce
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334053218
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Igniting the Heart written by Kate Bruce and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Bruce argues that imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task itself, which in turn affects how we go about the task.