03016nam 2200649Ia 450 991078244350332120230721003721.01-315-57204-41-317-16621-31-317-16620-51-281-96892-797866119689220-7546-9314-7(CKB)1000000000578171(EBL)438753(OCoLC)326718594(SSID)ssj0000122169(PQKBManifestationID)11143241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122169(PQKBWorkID)10111810(PQKB)11020652(Au-PeEL)EBL438753(CaPaEBR)ebr10271845(CaONFJC)MIL924862(MiAaPQ)EBC438753(EXLCZ)99100000000057817120080528d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChurch, community and power[electronic resource] /Roy KearsleyFarnham, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub. Ltd.c20081 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6345-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.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; IndexIn 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 philosoChurchPower (Christian theology)CommunitiesReligious aspectsChristianityAuthorityReligious aspectsChristianityChurch.Power (Christian theology)CommunitiesReligious aspectsChristianity.AuthorityReligious aspectsChristianity.262Kearsley Roy1502331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782443503321Church, community and power3730020UNINA