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Author Davies, Mervyn (Educationalist)

Title Leadership in the Church for a People of Hope
Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages)
Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1: Church and Society: The State We're In; Chapter 2: Ecclesiology and Mission; Chapter 3: Growing the People of God; Chapter 4: Foundational Roles in the Church; Chapter 5: Leadership in Change; Chapter 6: Re-membering the Laity; Chapter 7: Breathing Together: Laity and Clergy Doing Theology and Mission; Chapter 8: Newman's Theology of Education and the Church as a Learning Community; Chapter 9: God, Ministry and Time; Chapter 10: Resurrection Leadership; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book explores Church leadership in the context of the 21 st 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 creativ
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Subject Christian leadership.
Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christian leadership
Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Form Electronic book
Author Dodds, Graham
ISBN 9780567293190
056729319X