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It's a Different Worldby Lyle E. Schaller
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 9.00In It's a Different World best-selling author/consultant Lyle E. Schaller tackles the question, Why is pastoring especially difficult in the 1980s? more...
Senior Ministerby Lyle E. Schaller
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 9.00Outlines the role and responsibilities of the senior minister in the large congregation. Offers insight into the skills and point of view that will make a senior minister an initiating leader. more...
Feminization of the Clergy in Americaby Paula D. Nesbitt
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 110.00Recent years have seen the entry of large numbers of women into the ordained clergy of Protestant churches. Nesbitt here analyzes the extent to which the large-scale entry of women into the ministry has affected the occupation. more...
Doing More with Lifeby Michael R. Miller
Baylor University Press 2007; US$ 34.95Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can clarify how God calls all people, allow mentoring across specific vocations, and inspire future generations to think of their lives as vocations. more...
The Missional Leaderby Alan Roxburgh; Fred Romanuk; Eddie Gibbs
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 24.95In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk give church and denominational leaders, pastors, and clergy a clear model for leading the change necessary to create and foster a missional church focused outward to spread the message of the Gospel into the surrounding community. The Missional Leader emphasizes principles rather than institutional forms, shows readers how to move away from “church as usual,” and demonstrates what capacities, environments, and mindsets are required to lead a missional church. more...
Canon Law, Careers and Conquestby Jörg Peltzer
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 118.00Study of the politics of episcopal elections in twelfth and thirteenth-century Normandy and Greater Anjou. more...
Creating Communityby Andy Stanley; Bill Willits
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 10.99Small Groups That Succeed. Small groups are the key to impacting lives in your church. But a healthy small-group environment—one that fosters meaningful, lasting connections—doesn’t just happen. So pull up a chair. Let’s talk about how to make it happen. Bill Willits and bestselling author Andy Stanley share their successful approach, which has resulted in nearly eight thousand adults becoming involved in small groups at North Point Community Church in Atlanta . Simply put, the five principles clearly described here have passed the test. This is not just another book about community; this is a book about strategy—strategy that builds a small group culture. Creating Community shares clear and simple... more...
Episcopal Elections 250-600by Peter Norton
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 80.00A refutation of the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops. Peter Norton argues that this right remained for longer than is normally assumed, with important consequences for our understanding of the administration of the later empire. - ;Peter Norton covers a topic of great relevance to students of early Church history and late antiquity alike. He challenges the conventional view that after the adoption of Christianity by the Roman empire the local community lost its voice in the appointment of bishops, and argues that this right remained in theory and practice for longer than is normally assumed. Given that bishops became important to the... more...
Royal Priesthoodby Thomas F. Torrance
Continuum International Publishing 1993; US$ 70.00An up-to-date ecumenical understanding of the Church and its ministry that cuts across divisions between Catholic and Evangelical, Anglican and Reformed, and includes the ministry of both men and women. more...
Theological Foundations for Collaborative Ministryby Stephen Pickard
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 34.95This book examines the theological foundations of a collaborative approach to Christian ministry. The discovery that Christians are members 'one of another' creates energy and joy in ministry and empowers the Church in an age of mission. Outlining the present challenges for ministry, Stephen Pickard offers an historical perspective on ministry over the last century; develops a theory of collaborative ministry based on a dialogue between theology and science; and explores some implications of collaborative ministry for lay and ordained people of the Church. This book breaks new ground in its theory of collaborative ministry through a dialogue with the sciences of emergence. It also offers fresh insights on important texts in ministry;... more...









