John Bodycomb

Two Elephants in the Room (eBook, ePUB)

Evolving Christianity and Leadership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With familiar candour and colour, John Bodycomb excoriates church leadership for evading, and layering over with platitudes, two huge questions:

• What future for organised religion in Western societies?

and (in light of this) • What future for the so-called 'religious professional'?

Fifty years a sociologist of religion, specialising in the ups and downs of organised religion, Bodycomb is plain-spoken and provocative.

Institutional Christianity as we have known it began to decline 600 years ago, and with it a model of religious professional. We are entering a new era, in which people must still make sense of existence with some kind of meaning system - but the old ones are obsolete.

The defenders of tradition, theologians, institutional power brokers and thought police will hate 'Two Elephants', he predicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spectrum Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780867860597
• Artikelnr.: 54442169

Autorenporträt

John Bodycomb is a retired minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He received his initial theological education at the Congregational College of Victoria and was ordained in the Congregational tradition. He did postgraduate work at Boston University School of Theology and the Melbourne College of Divinity. He served as minister in congregations in Victoria, South Australia, USA and New Zealand. In South Australia he served as Director of Youth Ministry and Christian Education. He has been a speaker on religious programs on radio and is a published author. He was the first dean of the new Uniting Church Theological Hall in Melbourne, where he served for ten years, teaching sociology and preaching. For eight years until his retirement he was full-time chaplain with the University of Melbourne. Since retirement he has continued preaching, teaching and consulting. He is an authority on the processes of church growth and decline and is active in inter-faith relations and issues of justice and human rights. His study interests include Jesus research and the dialogue between theology and science.