1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790074603321

Autore

Davies Mervyn

Titolo

Leadership in the church for a people of hope [[electronic resource] /] / Mervyn Davies and Graham Dodds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : T & T Clark, 2011

ISBN

0-567-64785-4

1-283-12215-4

9786613122155

0-567-29319-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DoddsGraham

Disciplina

262.8

Soggetti

Christian leadership

Leadership - Religious aspects - Christianity

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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