Leadership in the church for a people of hope / Mervyn Davies and Graham Dodds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Mervyn.

Contributor:

Dodds, Graham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian leadership.

Leadership--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : T & T Clark, 2011.

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613122155

9780567647856

0567647854

9781283122153

1283122154

9780567293190

056729319X

OCLC:

727649514