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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454023503321

Autore

Kearsley Roy

Titolo

Church, community and power [[electronic resource] /] / Roy Kearsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2008

ISBN

1-317-16620-5

1-281-96892-7

9786611968922

0-7546-9314-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

262

Soggetti

Church

Power (Christian theology)

Communities - Religious aspects - Christianity

Authority - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Church as Community in the Presence of Power; 2 Church as a Koinonia. The Fellowship of the Way; 3 The Contested Concept. What is Power?; 4 Church and the Environment of Power; 5 'Power Relations' and Church; 6 Strategies, Church and Freedom; 7 Spirit, Power and Weakness; 8 Power, Authority and Community; 9 Twin Problems on Power and Church; 10 Conclusions: Power in the Future of Koinonia Community; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the era of 'post-Christendom', how can church as a sociological reality be switched on to the destructive dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of 'power' flowing in and around its community? Attuned to the current distrust of church power, this book creatively works out responses that could turn painful censure into a re-visioning of church power relations, helped by neglected critical studies. The approach exposes a complexity to power, and filters that insight into a theology of church. Much attention is paid in the book to the relevance to a



religious community of post-modern philoso