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Can This Church Live?: A Congregation, Its Neighborhood, and Social Transformation - Softcover

Matthews, Donald H.

 
9781608991822: Can This Church Live?: A Congregation, Its Neighborhood, and Social Transformation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1608991822 ISBN 13: 9781608991822
Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

"Churches should be the backbone of our neighborhoods . . . Many American churches are faced with the decisions of their lives. Will we live? Or will we die? . . . the question of 'Will we live or will we die' is a question of will, as in having the will to live; and it is also a question of who is included in the 'we.'" --from Chapter One "The State of Mainline Churches" Can This Church Live? is the true story of a church that had an opportunity to thrive in the midst of a community that greatly changed its demographics. Matthews directs readers through this painful process he experienced with the pastor and church leaders as they faced a harsh dilemma--a dilemma that more and more churches are facing today--can or will a predominantly white church embrace and welcome the people of color who live within the community? Using H. R. Niebuhr's famous text Christ and Culture, Matthews uses Niebuhr's five categories to analyze churches in crisis: 1) Christ against Culture; 2) Christ of Culture; 3) Christ above Culture; 4) Christ and Culture in Paradox; and 5) Christ the Transformer of Culture. The book also discusses moral and ethical issues as they relate to the Gospel and social transformation. Clergy and lay leaders will find this a valuable resource to help them discuss ways in which they can stabilize their church before they are confronted with a similar predicament.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald H. Matthews is the director of Black Studies at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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Verlag
Wipf and Stock
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1608991822
ISBN 13 
9781608991822
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
124
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