| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : church as community in the presence of power -- Church as a koinonia : the fellowship of the way -- The contested concept : what is power? -- Church and the environment of power -- Power relations and church -- Strategies, church, and freedom -- Spirit, power, and weakness -- Power, authority, and community -- Twin problems on power and church -- Conclusions : power in the future of koinonia community. |
| Summary |
In 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Church.
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Church. |
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Power (Christian theology)
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Power (Christian theology) |
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Communities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Communities -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Authority -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Authority -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kearsley, Roy. Church, community and power. Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, ©2008 (DLC) 2008023032 |
| ISBN |
0754663450 (cloth) |
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9780754663454 (cloth) |
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9780754693147 (electronic book) |
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0754693147 (electronic book) |
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