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Church, community and power / Roy Kearsley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, γ̐ư2008. Publication details: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0754663450
  • 9780754663454
  • 9780754693147
  • 0754693147
  • 1317166205
  • 9781317166207
  • 1281968927
  • 9781281968920
  • 9786611968922
  • 661196892X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Church, community and power.DDC classification:
  • 262 22
LOC classification:
  • BV600.3 .K43 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : church as community in the presence of power -- Church as a koinonia : the fellowship of the way -- The contested concept : what is power? -- Church and the environment of power -- Power relations and church -- Strategies, church, and freedom -- Spirit, power, and weakness -- Power, authority, and community -- Twin problems on power and church -- Conclusions : power in the future of koinonia community.
Summary: In the era of 'post-Christendom', how can church as a sociological reality be switched on to the destructive dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of 'power' flowing in and around its community? Attuned to the current distrust of church power, this book creatively works out responses that could turn painful censure into a re-visioning of church power relations, helped by neglected critical studies. The approach exposes a complexity to power, and filters that insight into a theology of church. Much attention is paid in the book to the relevance to a religious community of post-modern philoso.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)270942

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : church as community in the presence of power -- Church as a koinonia : the fellowship of the way -- The contested concept : what is power? -- Church and the environment of power -- Power relations and church -- Strategies, church, and freedom -- Spirit, power, and weakness -- Power, authority, and community -- Twin problems on power and church -- Conclusions : power in the future of koinonia community.

In the era of 'post-Christendom', how can church as a sociological reality be switched on to the destructive dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of 'power' flowing in and around its community? Attuned to the current distrust of church power, this book creatively works out responses that could turn painful censure into a re-visioning of church power relations, helped by neglected critical studies. The approach exposes a complexity to power, and filters that insight into a theology of church. Much attention is paid in the book to the relevance to a religious community of post-modern philoso.

Print version record.

English.