Feminization of the Clergy in America: Occupational and Organizational Perspectives
ISBN: 9780195106862 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminization is said to occur when women enter any given occupation in substantial numbers, and ostensibly leads to such dynamics as sex-segregation, reduced opportunities for men, and depressed wages and diminished prestige for the occupation as a whole. Spanning more than 70 years, Paula Nesbitt's study of feminization concentrates on the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association, utilizing both statistical results and interviews to compare occupational patterns prior and subsequent to the large influx of women clergy. Among her findings, the author discovers that a...
Feminization is said to occur when women enter any given occupation in substantial numbers, and ostensibly leads to such dynamics as sex-segregation, ...
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Maiden Voyage: Practical Advice for New Pastors
ISBN: 9780595389049 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parish life presents the novice pastor with many daunting challenges. "Maiden Voyage" meets new pastors at the point of their need for counsel and encouragement during this important phase of their career. Ronald Ramsey offers new pastors a virtual road map for the journey into unfamiliar territory. He shares not only practical advice but also a strategic way of thinking about the challenges pastors encounter. This book provides new pastors with a clear sense of the pastoral task and equips them with proven strategies for redemptive leadership. As a guide, "Maiden Voyage" encourages the...
Parish life presents the novice pastor with many daunting challenges. "Maiden Voyage" meets new pastors at the point of their need for counsel and enc...
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Unexpected Company: Former Jesuits Talk about Their Lives
ISBN: 9780595465514 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years before the Second Vatican Council great numbers of young men, typically just out of high school, entered a Jesuit novitiate to begin the thirteen-year march to the priesthood. Most would leave the Jesuits, sometimes long after ordination, and the question often is whether they failed their church or their church failed them.
In often brutally frank disclosures, a number of these former Jesuits talk about their lives: why they became novices and took lifetime vows and then why they left, sometimes just walking away after years in the priesthood. What they have to say about... In the years before the Second Vatican Council great numbers of young men, typically just out of high school, entered a Jesuit novitiate to begin the ...
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Calling & Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life
ISBN: 9780687090334 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Calling & Character", Willimon lays out a clear, compelling picture of the pastoral life, one that can inform both those embarking on ordained ministry and those who have been in it for many years. He lays out specific habits -- such as study, collegiality and humor -- as the day-by-day means of following the difficult and dangerous, yet deeply rewarding, calling of a pastor.
In "Calling & Character", Willimon lays out a clear, compelling picture of the pastoral life, one that can inform both those embarking on ordained min...
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Yoke of Obedience: The Meaning of Ordination in Methodism
ISBN: 9780687466603 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yoke of Obedience
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Fifty Years in a Jealous Marriage: Seeking a Healthy Sexuality in a World of Power and Control
ISBN: 9780788020612 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this candid story of one man's marriage to the Church, Father James Lex presents a balanced look at celibacy and other challenges facing priests, as he chronicles his transformation from a young, naive seminarian into a mature, truly catholic priest.
In this candid story of one man's marriage to the Church, Father James Lex presents a balanced look at celibacy and other challenges facing priests, a...
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Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems : Scapegoating, Family Secrets, and the Abuse of Power
ISBN: 9780789004512 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and tells how to implement proactive strategies for change. Using the family as a model for the congregation, chapters enriched with metaphoric myths instead of technical jargon reveal the psychodynamics behind family secret
Takes an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and tells how to implement proactive strategies for change. Using the fami...
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Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems: Scapegoating, Family Secrets, and the Abuse of Power
ISBN: 9780789004529 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, you ll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to implement proactive strategies for holistic change. Applicable to both Jewish and Christian communities, this illuminating exploration takes a look at the psychology behind scapegoating, why it is perpetuated, and how you can quell the damaging tradition of silence.Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems helps you see leaders of religious institutions in a way that the world has been afraid to see them--in a glass clearly....
In Understanding Clergy Misconduct in Religious Systems, you ll take an incisive look at why sexual misconduct occurs in religious systems and how to ...
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Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices
ISBN: 9780800637637 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled with many examples and stories from his own life and those he has counseled, Lehr identifies the typical forms codependence takes in the life and ministry of clergy: the chief-enabler, the one who keeps things functioning; the scapegoat, the one on whom everything's blamed when it goes wrong, the one who's responsible; the hero, the example, the pure and righteous one; the lost child, the one no one really knows or cares about; the...
In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters...
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The Theology of Priesthood
ISBN: 9780814650844 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Theology of Priesthood is the result of a two-year seminar and dialogue on the priesthood sponsored by the Central Province of Dominican Friars. The goal of the seminar was to promote dialogue around varied theological issues and pastoral concerns, representing diverse viewpoints, in order to deepen our understanding of priesthood in the Roman Catholic tradition. The focus was on the historical, liturgical, and theological aspects of priesthood that require further reflection.
The Theology of Priesthood is the result of a two-year seminar and dialogue on the priesthood sponsored by the Central Province of Dominican Friars. T...
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Living on the Border of the Holy
ISBN: 9780819217738 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The first thing to say in our exploration of priesthood is this: priesthood is a fundamental and inescapable part of being human. All human beings, knowingly or not, minister as priests to one another. All of us, knowingly or not, receive priestly ministrations from one another. Unless we begin here, we are not likely to understand the confusions and uncertainties and opportunities we have been encountering in the life of the church itself in recent years. We shall be in danger, in fact, of creating makeshift solutions to half-understood problems, easy answers to misleading questions,...
-The first thing to say in our exploration of priesthood is this: priesthood is a fundamental and inescapable part of being human. All human beings, k...
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Plus Sign on the Roof
ISBN: 9780932506863 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomson, a Roman Catholic priest, married man, and father of seven, shares life in this frank and witty autobiography from his boyhood in New Jersey through his days as an Episcopalian clergyman, conversion to Catholicism and ordination.
Thomson, a Roman Catholic priest, married man, and father of seven, shares life in this frank and witty autobiography from his boyhood in New Jersey t...
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125,15 zł |
Snakes in the Pulpit
ISBN: 9780979836008 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to the author, the only reason a prosperity message works is because in a materialistic society the average church member is more focused on making money and earning great wealth than he or she is focused on the Lord. (Christian)
According to the author, the only reason a prosperity message works is because in a materialistic society the average church member is more focused on...
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Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church
ISBN: 9781403966087 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church offers practical wisdom from comparative analysis of the experiences of a male pastor and a female pastor in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Church leaders must be transformed themselves as they are transforming their churches to serve their communities. From his research of the perspectives of laity, clergy, and scholars of the black church, Jeffery L. Tribble offers hopeful stories and helpful strategies for those who believe that the black church must continue its historic mission of being an instrument of survival,...
Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church offers practical wisdom from comparative analysis of the experiences of a male pastor and a fem...
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The Minister's Crucible
ISBN: 9781432700645 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So, you want to be a Minister? Well, welcome to Ministry. Being a Minister is not easy, but when God has called you he gives you the necessary training to guide you along your Ministerial journey. You may have questions about what being a Minister is all about or you may feel you need more training. If so, then, The Minister's Crucible is for you. Pastor Fred Rochester tells it all in The Minister's Crucible. He gives insightful information that will help you grow and become the Minister that God has called you to be. Here you will be trained, equipped, and prepared to: * Minister... So, you want to be a Minister? Well, welcome to Ministry. Being a Minister is not easy, but when God has called you he gives you the necessary... |
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Comprehending the Guru: Toward a Grammar of Religious Perception
ISBN: 9781555401771 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work contrasts the living guru in whom disciples place their trust to other objects of faith found in the world religions. Of these, two main alternatives emerge: past founders and great gods, to whom all may have access; and the sanctified way of life known to those within enduring cultures. Coming together in diverse configurations within different religious traditions, these primary objects of faith are taken as the basic elements of a syntax of religious perception. Although Daniel Gold focuses on examples from North Indian Hinduism, he writes for generalists in religious studies,...
This work contrasts the living guru in whom disciples place their trust to other objects of faith found in the world religions. Of these, two main alt...
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781563111297 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chronology of events, a history of the parishes, family histories.
A chronology of events, a history of the parishes, family histories.
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An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady Inclined to Enter the Romish
ISBN: 9781579106232 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Exposition of Galatians
ISBN: 9781589602922 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The First Love: About Joy in the Priesthood.
ISBN: 9781879007277 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holding fast with one's heart to the first love: the key to the power that priests possess as fishers of men. In these conversations, priests reveal the source and heart of their fidelity as they walk with Jesus, offering strength and consolation in their testimony.
Holding fast with one's heart to the first love: the key to the power that priests possess as fishers of men. In these conversations, priests reveal t...
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