num_pages: 256
description: This handbook for seminarians and clergy professionals places the congregation itself, rather than individual scholarly disciplines, at the center of congregational analysis. Using a comprehensive systems approach to congregations, this volume enables readers to analyze the ministries, stories, and processes that are at work in congregations. It provides techniques for studying the congregation as well as a framework for understanding the nature of the congregation.Theology in the congregation : discovering and doing / Robert J. Schreiter --Ecology : seeing the congregation in context / Nancy L. Eiesland, R. Stephen Warner --Culture and identity in the congregation / Nancy T. Ammerman --Process : dynamics of congregational life / Carl S. Dudley --Resources / William McKinney --Leadership and the study of the congregation / Jackson W. Carroll --Methods for congregational study / Scott L. Thumma
language: English
title: Studying Congregations: A New Handbook
titlecomplete: Studying Congregations: A New Handbook
genres: Church, Leadership, Religion, Reference
ratings_count: 106
publisher: Abingdon Press