Birthing a living church /Virginia Hoffman ; foreword by Dennis Geaney.

Book

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Birthing a living church /Virginia Hoffman ; foreword by Dennis Geaney.

Description

PART I : Questions pushing us toward birth. What -- or who -- is church? -- Isn't being church more than planning liturgies? -- Must ministry be dependent on power? -- Does it have to be this way? -- -- PART II : Can we get there from here? A birthing primer. Generating life -- Internal development : the rise of indigenous leadership -- Hard choices : inching toward a postclerical age -- Responsibility or co-dependence? -- Cutting the cord : restoring eucharist to the community -- Eucharist without clergy -- -- PART III : Life after birth. What will happen to "Mom"? : clerics in a postclerical church -- What about parishes? -- Beyond the confines of the womb -- The Catholic womb : hierarchical structure -- Birth versus inertia : the struggle of the undecided. xiv, 183 pages ;23 cm

Book Details

Author

Hoffman, Virginia

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

1988

Publication Subjects

Church renewal--Catholic Church. Church renewal--Catholic Church.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01750789 Catholic Church--United States--Controversial literature.

Call No.

BX1406.2 .H57 1988

ISBN

0824509005, 9780824509002

LCCN

88018810

Notes

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