Leadership in the Salvation Army: A Case Study in Clericalisation - Couverture souple

Hill, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1597529206 ISBN 13 : 9781597529204

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

Leadership in The Salvation Army is a review and analysis of Salvation Army history, focused on the process of clericalisation. The Army provides a case study of the way in which renewal movements in the church institutionalise. Their leadership roles, initially merely functional and based on the principle of the 'priesthood of all believers', begin to assume greater status. the adoption of the term 'ordination' for the commissioning of The Salvation Army's officers in 1978, a hundred years after its founding, illustrates this tendency. The Salvation Army's ecclesiology has been essentially pragmatic and has developed in comparative isolation from the wider church, perhaps with a greater role being played by sociological processes than by theological reflection in its development. The Army continues to exhibit a tension between its theology, which supports equality of status, and its military structure, which works against equality, and both schools of thought flourish within its ranks.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Harold Hill holds a Ph.D. from the Victoria University of Wellington, and has been a Salvation Army officer since 1972, serving in Zimbabwe and then in pastoral, educational and administrative work in New Zealand. He has degrees in history and theology from Victoria and Otago Universities. He lives in Wellington with his wife, Pat, and they have two adult daughters.

Dr Ian Breward is the Archivist for the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. Previously, he was Professor of Church History at the Uniting Church Theological Hall, Melbourne. He was a President of the Melbourne College of Divinity and a long standing member of the College. He is a Senior Fellow of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597529206
• ISBN 13: 9781597529204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 370
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• Personne responsable: non disponible