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Author Percy, Martyn

Title The Future Shapes of Anglicanism : Currents, contours, charts
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
Contents The Future Shapes of Anglicanism- Front Cover; The Future Shapes of Anglicanism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; Mapping the present; Mapping the future?; The culture of church and the church of culture; Conclusion; PART I: Currents, contours and charts; Chapter 1: Growth and management in the Church of England -- some charts; Preoccupied with productivity?; Over-managed, theologically under-led?; An excursion in to the Green Report: a critique; Conclusion; Chapter 2: New currents in executive and archiepiscopal leadership
Paradigms and polityEcclesiology: institution, organisation and leadership; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The emerging contours of archiepiscopal leadership; The nature of this ecclesial body; Conclusion; PART II: Money, sex and power: divisions and diversities; Chapter 4: Future possibilities for funding the ministry of the Church of England; Congregations and the financing of ministry; Power in partnership?; Chapter 5: Spartacus: modelling rebellion in the church; Living in the present; Context and catholicity; Resolving the crisis?
Chapter 6: Power in the church? Congregations, churches and the Anglican CommunionConventional thoughts on power; Unconventional thoughts on power; A balance of power?; Conclusion; PART III: Maps and forecasts; Chapter 7: Future directions of travel; Sex, sense and non-sense for Anglicans; Conclusion; Chapter 8: Re-charting the church; Church and contemporary culture: accommodation and resistance; Soundings and charts; Chapter 9: Old maps for new territories?; Crisis? What crisis?; 'High, Broad and Low' -- old maps for today's terrain; Conclusion; Conclusion
Back to the future? Bureaucracy, management and executive leadershipFurther considerations; An elegy?; Coda: The Churchgoer's Charter; Preface to the story: the real present; The story of The Churchgoer's Charter; A parable; Afterword: Futurescape?; Bibliography; Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317182115
1317182111