The Pattern of Our Calling: Ministry Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Hoyle, David David Hoyle,

ISBN 10: 0334054729 / ISBN 13: 9780334054726

Verlag: SCM Press, 2016

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•This will resonate deeply with local clergy who are now expected to be successful managers generating growth.•Focuses on a live debate across the full spectrum of the church. •The author writes in a way which is informative, but it also sustaining. •Issues a theological challenge to contemporary understandings and models of leadership and ministry Ministry has always changed, adapting to time and place. But the pace of change has increased. There is a greater need for success and less tolerance of diversity. A few high-achievers hold up their heads whilst others struggle or wonder how to make sense of what feels like failure. Our theology is impoverished and we are so quick to adopt new models that we have forgotten our own past. David Hoyle explores the changing theologies of ministry during the church’s history with the aim of challenging the lack of theological reflection in some of today’s results-driven understanding of ministry that seems more influenced by the business world than by Christian theology and tradition. Setting out to explain why theologians said what they said about ministry, why it might matter, and why it might be exciting, Hoyle covers nearly two thousand years of theological reflection from the Didache to Michael Ramsey and current writers, and provides a synthesis not found anywhere else. The book offers realistic sustenance to practitioners struggling with the new demands on clergy.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David Hoyle is the Dean of Bristol and author of the acclaimed The Pattern of Our Calling. He was previously Director of Ministry for the Diocese of Gloucester and Secretary to the Theological Group of the House of Bishops. He loves his job, but wishes he were a tall and elegant Dean and could sing better.

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Titel: The Pattern of Our Calling: Ministry ...
Verlag: SCM Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Very Good