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Recreating the church : leadership for the postmodern age / Richard L. Hamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamm, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1947-
- Series:
- Columbia Partnership leadership series.
- The Columbia Partnership leadership series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian leadership.
- Church renewal.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 130 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Louis, Mo. : Chalice Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mainline denominations in the United States are in crisis. These institutions - created in and for modernity - are now facing a changed, postmodern culture. Hamm faces the crisis, examining its origins, and offers sound advice on how to lead to church to make the adaptive changes needed to thrive in postmodern times. A TCP Leadership Series title.
- Contents:
- The first element of the perfect storm: confronting mainline churches change in American culture
- The second element of the perfect storm: confronting mainline churches: organizational obsolescence
- The third element of the perfect storm: confronting mainline churches: the "high pressure" of anxiety
- Generational differences
- The crisis in governance of mainline churches
- Seeing the challenges through polarities
- Personal aspects of leading adaptive change
- Systemic aspects of leading adaptive change
- Why bother.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 130).
- ISBN:
- 9786612547164
- 9780827232631
- 0827232632
- 9781282547162
- 128254716X
- 9780827232648
- 0827232640
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