This book provides a much-needed basic text for United Methodist polity and related classes. It enables students and those already in the ministry to understand the Book of Discipline in its broader historical, theological, and contemporary contexts rather than simply addressing rules and regulations.
This book provides a much-needed basic text for United Methodist polity and related classes. It enables students and those already in the ministry to ...
Thomas Edward Frank points out that the dominant paradigm of many contemporary books about church administration reflects an underlying "theology of progress," a distilling of the gospel into self-worth, a conflation of basilea with market growth. According to Frank, good fortune and blessing are confused; praise and good feeling are identified. This paradigm of success and progress, however, fails to account adequately for the vision of the believers' presence in the world as ecclesia. "The soul of the congregation," argues Frank, is a way of being and being-in-the-world, and not didactic...
Thomas Edward Frank points out that the dominant paradigm of many contemporary books about church administration reflects an underlying "theology o...
"Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses." This in-depth analysis of the connection between United Methodist polity and theology addresses ways in which historical developments have shaped--and continue to shape--the organization of the church. This revised edition incorporates the actions of The United Methodist General Conference, 2004. The book discusses continuing reforms of the church's plan for baptism and church membership, as well as the emergence of deacon's orders and other changes to ordained...
"Commissioned by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry for use in United Methodist doctrine/polity/history courses." This in-depth analys...
