Description |
1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
Church and society : the state we're in -- Ecclesiology and mission -- Growing the people of God -- Foundational roles in the church -- Leadership in change -- Re-membering the laity -- Breathing together : laity and clergy doing theology and mission -- Newman's theology of education and the church as a learning community -- God, ministry and time -- Resurrection leadership. |
Summary |
This book explores Church leadership in the context of the 21st century and to ask how it must change and adapt while being true to its roots; it bringd together insights from theology, history and the social sciences in a way that will show that it has much to learn from contemporary leadership studies while also being different in important ways. Many leadership studies either ignore the need for leadership to be properly ecclesiologically grounded and hence risk simply uncritically importing secular models, or put forward a simplistic biblical view of leadership which fails to make creative use of what can be learned from secular studies. To ignore the present context of the Church, as some studies do, is to fail to see how previous explorations of Church leadership are based upon assumptions or presuppositions which are no longer valid thus perpetuating anachronistic models of leadership and the Church that hinder its ability to move forward. The book will attempt to redress these imbalances. |
Subject |
Christian leadership.
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- Leadership.
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RELIGION -- Leadership.
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Christian leadership. (OCoLC)fst00859172
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Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00994719
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Added Author |
Dodds, Graham.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Dodds, Graham. Leadership in the church for a people of hope. London : T & T Clark, 2011 9780567386212 (OCoLC)729991601 |
ISBN |
9780567293190 (electronic bk.) |
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056729319X (electronic bk.) |
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