Doctrine in experience
Subtitle: a Methodist theology of church and ministry
By: Russell E. Richey.
Publisher: Kingswood Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781426700101
Subjects: Methodist Church -- Doctrines; Church; Church work
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Doctrine out of history; title: Doctrine out of history; title: Four languages of Methodist self-understanding; title: History as bearer of Methodist identity; title: Itinerant ministry; title: Evolving patterns of Methodist ministry; title: District superintendency : a reconsideration; title: The teaching office; title: Itinerant general superintendency; title: Ministerial formation; title: Conference and connection; title: Methodist connectionalism; title: Methodist creation of the denomination; title: Connecting through education; title: Methodist culture wars; title: Are the local church and the denominational bureaucracy twins?; title: Church and sacrament; title: Methodism's "practiced" ecclesiology.