| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 160 pages) |
| Contents |
A note on Richard Hooker's Lawes of ecclesiastical polity -- The odium of institutions -- "Over the institutional church"? -- Dominion, distortion, and domination -- Institutions: dwelling in the grey spaces -- The power of symbols: the symbols of power -- Clericalism: playing the insider game -- Moses, management, bishops, budgets, and busyness -- Searching out the church in the shadows of shame -- An afterword: The Emmaus road to recognition |
| Summary |
"Churches around the world have been confronted by shame and culpability in widespread revelations of child sexual abuse. In this book, Jeffrey Driver, who has served the Australian Anglican Church as both a diocesan bishop and archbishop, explores some of the underlying cultural and theological influences that may have predisposed the possibility of abuse, as well as the defensiveness and cover-ups that sometimes followed. The first responses of most churches to the revelations of abuse were, of necessity, mostly structural and programmatic. Recognizing the institutional temptation to do only enough to settle a crisis, Jeffrey Driver calls for something different from the churches. Drawing on the imagery of Holy Saturday, he encourages a deeper journey of reflection and change, for churches and church leaders to linger reflectively in the grey spaces of loss and shame long enough to hear the voice of God addressing them through the vulnerable and the wounded once more, calling the church back to itself and into a deeper, humbler relationship with the world it is called to serve." -- Publisher |
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Church -- Authority.
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Church renewal -- Anglican Church of Australia.
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Church controversies -- Anglican Church of Australia
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Child sexual abuse by clergy -- Australia
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Child sexual abuse -- Religious aspects -- Anglican Church of Australia.
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Church controversies.
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Church -- Authority
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Church controversies
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Social institutions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781666794151 |
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1666794155 |
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