Phụ đề | : | Confronting Modernity's Wager |
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Tác giả | : | Branson, Mark Lau |
Nơi xuất bản | : | U.S.A: Cascade Books, 2021 |
Thông tin trách nhiệm | : | Mark Lau Branson, Alan J. Roxburgh |
Mô tả vật lý | : | xi, 225 pages Paperback, Illustration 23 cm |
Tóm tắt/ chú giải | : | Argues that “modernity’s wager” has shaped the leadership practices of church leadership, leading to a reliance on technique-driven strategies rather than responding to God’s agency. Mark Lau Branson and Alan Roxburgh propose that what we are seeing is the failure of “Modernity’s Wager,” the bet that we can live well, and even build churches without God. Sure, we don’t say this, but often we believe we are working for God or even without God rather than trusting in and responding to the initiatives of God. They contend that this secular outlook has had a corrosive influence on church leadership. They advocate for a different kind of leadership premised on God’s agency–indeed that the very disruptions we face may be invitations to step into and join what God is doing. Leadership is standing in the “space between” where we do not control but discern the ways of the Spirit of God. This is a book on leadership perspective rather than methods. In fact, it is an indictment of methods divorced from reliance upon the agency of God in our situations. So the book does not offer a program so much as a paradigm shift for leaders. Readers might feel this work is long on theory and short on practice. That is because the authors are seeking to shift the “social imaginary” that shapes contemporary church leadership. They want to encourage new habits and practices and a different way of conceiving of leadership. |
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Ngôn ngữ | : | Eng |
DDC | : | 248.4 / B816-M35 |
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