John Walker

Testing Fresh Expressions (eBook, ePUB)

Identity and Transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and, in particular, whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth, Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children, the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317045786
• Artikelnr.: 44873629

Autorenporträt

John Walker has experience of both traditional parish ministry and innovative church planting. Alongside parish ministry he has been a researcher for the Diocese of Canterbury in a joint project with the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Still Fresh?
Part 1 Fresh Hope?
Chapter 1 Changing Society
Chapter 2 Changing Church
Part 2 Existing Evidence
Chapter 3 Proportion
Chapter 4 Secularization
Chapter 5 Diffusion
Chapter 6 Congregation
Chapter 7 Generation
Part 3 New Research
Chapter 8 Context
Chapter 9 Why Try?
Chapter 10 Why Stay?
Chapter 11 Transformation
Part 4 Implications
Chapter 12 Strategy
Chapter 13 Ecclesiology
concl Conclusion: Fresh, Still ¿