Beyond Decline: A Challenge to the Churches - Softcover

Gill, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334000971 ISBN 13: 9780334000976

Verlag: SCM Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gill Robin

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Reseña del editor

Perhaps the most obvious thing one can say about the churches in Britain today is that they are declining. The facts are evident. However, responses to that decline vary considerably, and Robin Gill, parish priest and theologian as well as sociologist, has written to challenge some of them. Dr Gill begins by examining the way in which decline has led to what he argues is a disastrous anti-intellectualism within the churches. Then he goes on to examine ways in which declining churches are tempted to compensate by pressing for general assemblies and synods to make specific moral and social pronouncements. A third chapter sets out alternative and sometimes incompatible options for Christians to engage in moral and social issues. A fourth chapter examines competing models of evangelism and church growth. In the fifth chapter Dr Gill analyses clergy deployment within declining British churches. Concluding that churches are not deploying clergy in the most effective way to counter decline, he suggests a radical model for deployment to edge the churches beyond decline. The book ends with a vision of faith beyond decline.

Biografía del autor

Robin Gill is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at University of Kent, Canterbury. He is series editor of New Studies in Christian Ethics and author of Churchgoing and Christian Ethics (1999).

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• Verlag: SCM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0334000971
• ISBN 13: 9780334000976
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154