Ecclesianarchy
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Ecclesianarchy
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Author : John Williams
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Ecclesianarchy written by John Williams and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with Religion categories.
Strategic thinking about ministry and mission has tended to focus on the challenges of communication and presentation. Less attention has been paid to the effects that this thinking has on ministry. There is an unacknowledged dilemma for churches insofar as they are caught between the challenge to re-shape ministry in response to cultural change and the belief that there are certain God-given, immutable foundations for ministerial order that must be retained. Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, this book brings theological and practical insight to bear on the question of ministry’s provisionality. In the end, it asks, is the only way through this dilemma a kind of Ecclesianarchy?
Ecclesial Futures Volume 2 Issue 1
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Author : Nigel Rooms
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-06-02
Ecclesial Futures Volume 2 Issue 1 written by Nigel Rooms and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with Religion categories.
Ecclesial Futures publishes original research and theological reflection on the development and transformation of local Christian communities and the systems that support them as they join in the mission of God in the world. We understand local Christian communities broadly to include traditional “parish” churches and independent local churches, religious communities and congregations, new church plants, so-called “fresh expressions” of church, “emergent” churches, and “new monastic” communities. We are an international and ecumenical journal with an interdisciplinary understanding of our approach to theological research and reflection; the core disciplines being theology, missiology, and ecclesiology. Other social science and theological disciplines may be helpful in supporting the holistic nature of any research, e.g., anthropology and ethnography, sociology, statistical research, biblical studies, leadership studies, and adult learning. The journal fills an important reflective space between the academy and on-the-ground practice within the field of mission studies, ecclesiology, and the so-called “missional church.” This opportunity for engagement has emerged in the last twenty or so years from a turn to the local (and the local church) and, in the western world at least, from the demise of Christendom and a rapidly changing world—which also affects the church globally. The audience for the journal is truly global wherever the local church and the systems that support them exists. We expect to generate interest from readers in church judicatory bodies, theological seminaries, university theology departments, and in local churches from all God’s people and the leaders amongst them.
When Jesus Calls
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Author : Marcus Throup
language : en
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
When Jesus Calls written by Marcus Throup and has been published by Canterbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Religion categories.
When Jesus Calls considers the new approach to vocation in the Church of England and offers a guide for those who are exploring a call to licensed ministry, lay and ordained, and for those with responsibility for encouraging and discerning vocations. It introduces the categories of the Church’s new discernment framework, and brings them into conversation with the historic Anglican understanding of priestly vocation (the Ordinal) and the wider missional ‘manifesto’ of the Anglican Communion (the Five Marks of Mission). Its unique approach offers a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment which is attuned to the ‘simpler, humbler, bolder’ vision of the post-pandemic Church of England. It will be an essential resource for every diocesan vocations team and will also have value as a basic text for Anglican ministerial theology in IME 1.
The Humble Church
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Author : Martyn Percy
language : en
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Release Date : 2021-03-31
The Humble Church written by Martyn Percy and has been published by Canterbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-31 with Religion categories.
In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself – its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence – and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in order to become more like Christ? As Christ poured out his life for the sake of others, he considers ways in which the Church might imitate Christ in practice today. Whenever Jesus visited anywhere beyond the confines of the Jewish community he immediately became socially useful, and so this extols such virtues as humble service in the community, not because it is an effective way to grow the Church, but because it is faithful to Christ’s own example. Avoiding responses such as exasperation, righteous anger at shortcomings or wishful thinking about returning to the past, he sets out a vision for the Church's future that is both biblical and christological. Incisive, imaginative and engagingly written, this will resonate deeply with many lay and ordained members of the Church.
Doing Theology In The New Normal
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Author : Jione Havea
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2021-07-30
Doing Theology In The New Normal written by Jione Havea and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-30 with Religion categories.
Responses to the recent pandemic have been driven by fear, with social distancing and locking down of communities and borders as the most effective tactics. Out of fear and strategies that separate and isolate, emerges what has been described as the “new normal” (which seems to mutate daily). Truly global in scope, with contributors from across the world, this collection revisits four old responses to crises – assure, protest, trick, amend – to explore if/how those might still be relevant and effective and/or how they might be mutated during and after a global pandemic. Together they paint a grounded, earthy, context-focused picture of what it means to do theology in the new normal.
Christ Unabridged
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Author : George Westhaver
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2019-11-30
Christ Unabridged written by George Westhaver and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-30 with Religion categories.
A deep and scholarly study on the person of Christ as Son of Man from an impressive array of key theological and philosophical thinkers, including NT Wright, Lydia Schumacher and Oliver O'Donovan. Poetic interludes from renowned poet and scholar Malcolm Guite creatively shed a different light on the subject.
The Church S Other Half
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Author : Trevor Beeson
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2013-01-03
The Church S Other Half written by Trevor Beeson and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Religion categories.
Women have always constituted at least half of the church’s membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership. After the example of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities were wholly inclusive in their organisation, but a patriarchal model derived from the pattern of the secular Greco-Roman societies was soon adopted. This restricted women to subordinate roles from which the struggle to escape continues.
Models Of The Church
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Author : Avery Dulles
language : en
Publisher: Image
Release Date : 2002-05-14
Models Of The Church written by Avery Dulles and has been published by Image this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-14 with Religion categories.
There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book, as Community of Disciples. A balanced theology, he concludes, must incorporate the major affirmations of each. "The method of models or types," observes Cardinal Dulles, "can have great value in helping people to get beyond the limitations of their own particular outlook and to enter into fruitful conversation with others... Such conversation is obviously essential if ecumenism is to get beyond its present impasses." This new edition includes a new Appendix and Preface by the author.
Developing Faithful Ministers
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Author : Tim Ling
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2013-01-25
Developing Faithful Ministers written by Tim Ling and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-25 with Religion categories.
Developing Faithful Ministers aims to support the work of all those involved in supervision and training relationships within the Church. The Church recognising its call to serve God and the nation seeks to equip and develop its ministers to face the challenge of ministry in a society at the threshold of Christendom that is in a mission context. It is a context where both the general public and the institutional church have significant expectations of those in ministry. Indeed, there is now an expectation of ‘demonstrable capability’ prior to being licensed to any form of permanent tenure. The demand for more professional, demonstrably capable, mission able and collaborative licensed ministers places particular weight on the efficacy of the initial training relationship. "Developing Faithful Ministers" seeks to support those who find themselves in these relationships by offering both models of good practice and sustained theological reflection on what these drivers mean for developing ministry.
Igniting The Heart
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Author : Kate Bruce
language : en
Publisher: SCM Press
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Igniting The Heart written by Kate Bruce and has been published by SCM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Religion categories.
Kate Bruce argues that imagination can help to engage the hearer in a sermon which seeks to evoke rather than to inform. Imagination frames how we see the world and ourselves in it. As such it has a vital role in how preachers see the preaching task itself, which in turn affects how we go about the task.