The orders of ministry
Subtitle: problems and prospects
By: edited by Hendrik R. Pieterse
Contributors: Stamm, Mark Wesley; Hagiya, Grant; Campbell, Ted; Hartley, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Loren); Gros, Jeffrey, 1938-
Series: QR classics; QR classics
Publisher: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: United Methodist Church (U.S.); Elders (Church officers); Clergy; Deacons; Ordination; Methodist Church
Other titles: Quarterly review (United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry (U.S.))
Notes: Articles first appeared in Quarterly review, vol. 24, no. 4 (Winter 2004).

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: A call to order, once more ...  -- Hendrik R. Pieterse -- 1.; title: What is an order? Reflections on the vocation of elders and deacons  -- Mark W. Stamm -- 2.; title: The order of elders: doomed to failure or hope for the future?  -- Grant Hagiya -- 3.; title: The Oral Roberts option: the case for ordained local elders (and local deacons?) in The United Methodist Church  -- Ted A. Campbell -- 4.; title: Connected and sent out: implication of new Biblical research for the United Methodist diaconate  -- Benjamin L. Hartley -- 5.; title: United Methodist ordained ministry in ecumenical perspective -- Jeffrey Gros.