Advocacy organizations and collective action
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Item UNDERSTANDING CHURCH GROWTH(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970-09-29) DONALD A. McGAVRANOne of the greatest privileges of my life has been to associate closely with Donald A. McGavran. After sixteen years as a missionary to Bolivia, I ac cepted his call in 1971 to join him on the faculty of the Fuller Theologi cal Seminary School of World Mission in Pasadena, California. For ten years, until his retirement in 1981, we worked together teaching church growth, supervising graduate theses and dissertations in the field, train ing missionaries and pastors, and consulting with churches and mission agencies. I was honored in 1984 to be invited to become the first incum bent of the Donald A. McGavran Chair of Church Growth. Understanding Church Growth is one of those classics which has be come the indispensable foundational text for an academic field. No one can claim to be a serious student of church growth who has not read and absorbed the content of Understanding Church Growth. I was one of the first to be introduced to the content of this book, in classroom lectures in the late 1960s while it was yet being written. The first edition was pub lished in 1970, and the revised edition was expanded and updated by McGavran in 1980. In this 1990 edition the language has been modern ized, the flow of ideas somewhat streamlined, the content also reduced, mostly by eliminating redundancies, ideas and illustrations updated, and a bit of new material such as the chapter on divine healing introduced. But through it all, Donald McGavran is the one who speaks.Item GOD, MAN AND POLITICS: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF JACQUES MARITAIN(UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1962-02-12) HWA YOL JUNGThe author vould like to express his deep gratitude to Professor Manning J. Dauer, the chairman of his doctoral supervisory counnittee, for his discerning guidance and warm personal encouragement without which this dissertation would have been impossible. He is also grateful for the assistance in the beginning of this dissertation given by Professor Alfred Diamant, who is now teaching at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He is deeply indebted to his doctoral conmiittee members: Professors Oscar Svarllen, Ernest R. Hartley, Frederick H. Hartmann, Arnold J. Heidenheimer of the Department of Political Science and Professor George R. Bartlett of the Department of Philosophy. The author is grateful to his wife who has read and typed a part of this dissertation. Finally, this dissertation is a token expression of the author's appreciation for the teachers and friends who have given him their moral support and financial aid since his arrival in this country in 1934.Item Creative Church Administration(1965-03-17) Lyie E.SchailerWhy another book on church administration? In responding to that question it may be helpful first to review the changing emphases in church administration since the turn of the century. The first books to be published on church administration can be described simply as sharing experiences. They are to church administration, as we know it today, what reminiscences and autobiographies are to history. The value of these early efforts to systematize the experiences of a "successful" pastor should not be dismissed lightly, however. Their authors made several significant contributions, among them the sharing of "lessons from experience," the recognition that there were skills that could be transmitted from one person to another, and the focusing of attention on another dimension of the minister's work in addition to the traditional responsibilities of preaching, visitation, and evangelism.