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The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series) - Softcover

Mead, Loren B.

 
9781566990509: The Once and Future Church: Reinventing the Congregation for a New Mission Frontier (Once and Future Church Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1566990505 ISBN 13: 9781566990509
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Mead takes a broad look at past and present changes in the church, and postulates a future to which those changes are calling us. Denominations, once structured to deliver resources to far-off lands of foreign mission, now encounter the mission field in the layperson's workplace and the community surrounding the local congregation. Thus, the church is called to reinvention for this new mission frontier

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Loren B. Mead (1930-2018) was a native of Florence, South Carolina. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of the South (Sewanee) and a master's degree from the University of South Carolina. In 1955, he graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary. Mead was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church that same year, and priest in 1956. He served as a rector in South Carolina and North Carolina before agreeing to direct Project Test Pattern, a national initiative of the Episcopal Church, in 1969. The Alban Institute, which he founded in 1974, grew out of this work. He was president of the Institute until 1994. When he stepped down from its presidency, the institute had 8,500 members and was recognized as a leading force in the life of the contemporary church. He continued to consult, write, and teach until the last years of his life. During a career that spanned six decades, Mead wrote many books, including The Once and Future Church (1991), Tran

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1566990505
ISBN 13 
9781566990509
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
102
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