A new book on congregational studies
Studying Congregations:
A New Handbook |
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This important new handbook for seminarians and clergy professionals places the congregation itself, rather than individual scholarly disciplines, at the center of congregational analysis. Studying Congregations: A New Handbook is a thoroughgoing revision and update of the leading textbook in the field (A Handbook for Congregational Studies). Using a comprehensive systems approach to congregations, this volume enables readers to analyze the ministries, stories, and processes that are at work in congregations. It provides techniques for studying the congregation as well as a framework for understanding the nature of the congregation.
Edited by: Nancy T. Ammerman, Jackson W. Carroll, Carl S. Dudley & William McKinney
Published by Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, 21 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37202-0801
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Authors are Nancy T. Ammerman, Jackson W. Carroll, Carl S. Dudley, Nancy L. Eiesland, William McKinney, Robert Schreiter, Scott L. Thumma, and R. Stephen Warner
The book's chapters include:
CHAPTER 1 - Theology in the Congregation:
Discovering and Doing
CHAPTER 2 - Ecology: Viewing the Congregation Contextually
CHAPTER 3 - Culture and Identity in the Congregation
CHAPTER 4 - Process: Dynamics of Congregational Life
CHAPTER 5 - Resources
CHAPTER 6 - Leadership and the Study of the Congregation
CHAPTER 7 - Methods for Congregational Study
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