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200 10$aChurch, community and power$b[electronic resource] /$fRoy Kearsley
210   $aFarnham, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate Pub. Ltd.$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (255 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-241) and index.
327   $aCover; 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
330   $aIn 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
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