The Stories Congregations Tell: Flourishing in the Face of Transition and Change - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798385203659

Verlag: Wipf and Stock, 2024

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Congregations are story-telling communities. The stories they tell, which link a community’s past, present, and future, can play an important role in whether a congregation flourishes or not. The Stories Congregations Tell features detailed case study research from seven dynamic Canadian congregations across theological traditions and geographical regions. Readers will encounter narratives that congregations tell themselves through a myriad of congregational and social transitions, accounts that shape how congregations interpret, frame, approach, and ultimately flourish in ministry. On the surface congregational descriptions appear specific to local contexts. Yet, cultural analysis reveals several commonalities across distinct congregational cultures that appear resilient in the face of challenge and change. These factors include visionary leadership, clear congregational identity rooted in spiritual formation, hospitable community among members, and intentional systems and structures oriented toward a congregation’s mission. This book offers social scientific analysis and theological reflection on the stories congregations tell and the function those stories play for a congregation’s culture, along with practical and hopeful applications to arise from this research.

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Joel Thiessen is professor of sociology, director of the Flourishing Congregations Institute, and chair of the social sciences department at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has authored five books and nearly twenty articles related to religion in Canada, religious nones, congregations, Christianity, and millennials. For more, visit www.joelthiessen.ca.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798385203659
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
• Herausgeber: Thiessen Joel, Wong Arch Chee Keen, Chapman Mark
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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