For God's sake re-imagining priesthood and prayer in a changing church
What does it really mean to be a parish priest in todays pressurised and changing church? Priests have traditionally understood themselves as maintaining centres of prayer and spiritual care for people in a particular place, but urgent pressures on parish ministry are changing this. Driven by the sc...
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Norwish, Norfolk, UK
Canterbury Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | What does it really mean to be a parish priest in todays pressurised and changing church? Priests have traditionally understood themselves as maintaining centres of prayer and spiritual care for people in a particular place, but urgent pressures on parish ministry are changing this. Driven by the scarcity of resources, changed cultural expectations, and the changing face of clergy vocations, models of the local and personal are being superseded by clergy who are deployed over multiple parishes. At the same time, unrooted Fresh Expressions exist alongside local churches, and there is a growing disconnection between ministry on the ground and senior leadership in the Church. A range of contributors explore first-hand the contradictions and paradoxes of a priests daily life, focusing especially on presence and prayer. Urgent yet optimistic, they seek a renewed understanding of ministry and mission in our current cultural landscape and conclude with a definition of mission as the contagiously visible life of prayer in a place |
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| Beschreibung: | "This book finds its remote origins in a conference held in September 2011 at Lichfield Cathedral which sought to consider the place of the 'scholar priest' in today's Anglican church ... In the intervening years the book has been most decisevely shaped by the personal experience of contributors in the context of a fast-changing ministerial landscape within the Church of England Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | xx, 183 pages 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781848258143 978-1-84825-814-3 1848258143 1-84825-814-3 |