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Leadership in Turbulant Times
(Simon & Schuster, 1832-07-12) Doris Kearns Goodwin
Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson—the lives and times of these four men have occupied me for half a century. I have awakened with them in the morning and thought about them when I went to bed at night. By immersing myself in manuscript collections, personal diaries, letters, oral histories, memoirs, newspaper archives, and periodicals, I searched for illuminating details that, taken together, would provide an intimate understanding of these men, their families, their friends, their colleagues, and the worlds in which they lived. After writing four extensive books devoted to these men, I thought I knew them well before I embarked on this present study of leadership nearly ve years ago. But as I observed them through the exclusive lens of leadership, I felt as if I were meeting them anew. There was much to learn as the elusive theme of leadership assumed center stage. As I turned to works of philosophy, literature, business, political science, and comparative studies, in addition to history and biography, I found myself engaged in an unexpectedly personal and emotional kind of storytelling. I returned to fundamental questions I had not asked so openly since my days of college and graduate school.
A THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION History, Politics, and Salvation
(ORBIS BOOKS, 1928-02-03) GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ
This book is an attempt at reflection, based on the gospel and the experiences of men and women committed to the process of liberation in the oppressed and exploited land of Latin America. It is a theological reflection born of the experience of shared efforts to abolish the current unjust situation and to build a different society, freer and more human. Many in Latin America have started along the path of a commitment to liberation, and among them is a growing number of Christians; whatever the validity of these pages, it is due to their experiences and reflections. My greatest desire is not to betray their experiences and efforts to elucidate the meaning of their solidarity with the oppressed. My purpose is not to elaborate an ideology to justify postures already taken, or to undertake a feverish search for security in the face of the radical challenges that confront the faith, or to fashion a theology from which political action is “deduced.” It is rather to let ourselves be judged by the word of the Lord, to think through our faith, to strengthen our love, and to give reason for our hope from within a commitment that seeks to become more radical, total, and efficacious. It is to reconsider the great themes of the Christian life within this radically changed perspective and with regard to the new ques tions posed by this commitment. This is the goal of the so-called theology of liberation.1 Many significant efforts along these lines are being made in Latin America. Insofar as I know about them, they have been kept in mind and have contrib uted to this study. I wish to avoid, however, the kind of reflection that— legitimately concerned with preventing the mechanical transfer of an approach foreign to our historical and social coordinates—neglects the contribution of the universal Christian community. It seems better, moreover, to acknowledge explicitly this contribution than to introduce surreptitiously and uncritically The present for study a is based on a paper presented at the Encuentro National del Movimiento Sacerdotal ONIS, July 1968, in Chimbote, Peru, published by the MIEC Documentation Service in Montevideo (1969) with the title Hacia una teologia de la liberation. The original lecture was updated presentation SODEPAX, November 1969, at in the Cartigny, Consultation Switzerland, of and Theology published and as Development “Notes on organized a Theology by of Liberation,” in In Search of a Theology of Development: A Sodepax Report (Lausanne, 1970).
THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY
(CENSOR DEPUTATUS, 1935-07-27) ROMANO GUARDINI
AN old theological proverb says, "Nothing done by nature and grace is done in vain." Nature and grace obey their own laws, which are based upon certain established hypotheses. Both the natural and the supernatural life of the soul, when lived in accordance with these principles, remain healthy, develop, and are enriched. In isolated cases the rules may be waived without any danger, when such a course is required or excused by reason of a spiritual disturbance, imperative necessity, extraordinary occasion, important end in view, or the like. In the end, however, this cannot be done with impunity. Just as the life of the body droops and is stunted when the conditions of its growth are not observed, so it is with spiritual and religious life--it sickens, losing its vigor, strength and unity.
GOD, MAN AND POLITICS: THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY OF JACQUES MARITAIN
(UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1962-02-12) HWA YOL JUNG
The 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.
Creative Church Administration
(1965-03-17) Lyie E.Schailer
Why 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.
UNDERSTANDING CHURCH GROWTH
(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970-09-29) DONALD A. McGAVRAN
One 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.
Christian Counseling. A Comprehensive Guide
(Word Books Publisher, 1980-07-12) Gary R.Collins
This manuscript was completed and sent to the publisher exactly ten years after the completion of my first book. It is interesting for me to look back over a decade of writing to ponder how my work has changed and hopefully improved through the production of more than two dozen books. Some of these works have been well received and sold many copies; others have had less influence, but each has forced me to face the dis cipline, the long, lonely hours, and the risk of expressing ideas in print, where all can see, criticize, and sometimes applaud. I once asked Paul Toumier which of his many books was the best. “That’s easy,” he said with a twinkle in his eye—“the next one.” I can appreciate Toumier’s sentiments. I am not interested in judging whether this book will be better or worse than the next one, but I do know that this volume has been the most difficult to write and the most time- consuming. It is also the lengthiest of all my books. I hope it will also be the most helpful to date. In the following pages I have tried to summarize much of what we know about counseling methodology and about the major problems which peo ple face today. This book has been prepared as a resource tool for pastors and other Christian counselors, as a study guide for lay helpers, and as a textbook for use in seminaries and colleges. Besides being written for these audiences, this is the reading book for a multi-media resource en titled The Christian Counselor's Library. The library contains twenty- eight audio cassettes, a Counselor’s Manual, and counselee worksheets (besides this book), and was produced by Educational Products Division of Word, Incorporated, 4800 W. Waco Drive, Waco, Texas 76710. In the past decade of writing, I have never before felt the support and encouragement of so many people. Joey Paul and his colleagues at Word, Incorporated, first invited me to do this project, gave constant encourage ment, and waited more or less patiently through several delays as the work was completed. My secretary Marlene Terbush and my graduate assistants Charles Romig and James Beesley helped in innumerable ways as did a team of typists which included Kathy Cropp, Marilyn Secor, Lenore Scherrer, Sharon Regan, Nancy Fister and Lora Beth Norton. In addition each of the people who produced tapes made a significant contribution. Their names are listed elsewhere. Dr. Kenneth Meyer, Pres ident of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, my colleagues in the psy chology department, and my students all showed incredible flexibility 7 8 Preface and encouragement, allowing me to juggle my schedule to complete this project in the midst of a busy school year.
CLASSICAL APOLOGETICS A Rational Defense of the Christian Faith and a Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics
(Zondervan, 1984-04-04) R. C. SPROUL; JOHN GERSTNER and ARTHUR LINDSLEY
Christianity is rational. But because it provokes passion, devotion, prayer, worship, and aspirations to obedience, its purely rational element can easily be submerged or concealed from view. It has been called variously a “religion,” a “way of life,” an “experience,” a “faith,” and an “ideology.” That Christianity involves more, much more than rationality, is evident. That it is eminently rational is not always evident. Throughout this work, the authors, John Gerstner, Arthur Lindsley, and R. C. Sproul, affirm the primacy of the mind in the Christian faith. To suggest the primacy of the mind is outrageous to some, particularly to those who equate rationality with rationalism. We also affirm the primacy of the heart. The scope of this volume focuses primarily on the rational aspect of Christianity. Our emphasis on this part, however, must not be misconstrued as a summary of the whole.
Symposium on the Role of Women in the Church
(Zondervan, 1984-08-28)
The Biblical Research Institute (BRI) of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been involved since 1972 with committees, councils, and research papers on the roles of women in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. At times they were encouraged to believe that the papers written on the subject could be published for the benefit of concerned individuals within the church and the information of similar persons outside the membership of the church.* Until the present time there have been various factors which have led the administrative leadership of the church to postpone such publication. The general reason given for the reluctance to publish was the fear that certain countries in the world family of Adventist churches would be embarrassed, if not offended, by actions that could result in placing women in leadership roles in the church, the home, the school, or the family. Persons or organizations hearing of the existence of these papers could purchase copies from the Biblical Research office. Some copies have been distributed under these terms. Now the BRI’s Administrative Committee has voted to publish this set of papers. The following provides an overview of them so that the reader may better anticipate their contents. One of the issues receiving the attention of Christian churches in the past fifteen years has been the roles that the women of these churches can best fulfill. This subject is of particular concern to those women who feel that they have been, or are, prevented from carrying out certain roles in the church, for which they believe they have a competency or a potential capacity. Others share their concern. It is of interest also to those—both men and women—who are aroused by present-day agitation in society for women to be freely admitted to those areas from which custom and tradition have hitherto excluded them. Such persons want to know whether and how the church is affected by, and is relating to, this general movement in society—how it is treating its women. For many, the church’s profession of Christ is judged on this issue.
HOW GOOD PEOPLE MAKE TOUGH CHOICES Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
(Perfectbound Choices, 1986-06-19) Rushworth M. Kidder
The seeds of this book were sown when, one warm summer afternoon at her home in Cos Cob, Connecticut, in 1986, I had a quiet, long, and thoughtful conversation with Barbara Tuchman. A historian of what she called “the small facts, not the big Expla nation,” she had twice won the Pulitzer Prize—and earned high praise for such books as A Distant Mirror, which used the fourteenth century and its Black Plague as a “mirror” for the twentieth century’s con fusions and violence. As a columnist and staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, I was interviewing her for a series of articles based on the ideas of twenty-two leading thinkers around the world. Ultimately published as An Agenda for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 1987), this series sought to discover the major, first-intensity, high-leverage issues that humanity would have to address in order to negotiate the coming century successfully. As we talked, I asked her how, if she were a twenty-first-century historian looking backward, she would characterize our century. “I would call it an Age of Disruption,” she said. She warned of the nuclear threat. She called attention to environmental problems. But her central concern, she said, lay in “the real disruption in public morality.” “There have always been times when people have acted immor ally,” she continued. But what was new, she felt, was “the extent of public immorality making itself so obvious to the average citizen.”
The 5 Levels of Leadership : Proven Steps to Maximize your Potential
(Center Street, 1989-03-01) John C.Maxwell
Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development! Good leadership isn’t about advancing yourself. It’s about advancing your team. The 5 Levels of Leadership provides clear steps for leadership growth. Lead people well and help members of your team to become effective leaders, and a successful career path is almost guaranteed.
A THEOLOGY OF RECONSTRUCTION Nation-building and human right
(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1992-11-30) Charles Villa -Vicencio
Only twenty years ago it was widely assumed that religion had lost its previous place in western culture and that this pattern would spread throughout the world. Since then religion has become a renewed force, recognised as an important factor in the modern world in all aspects of life, cultural, economic and political. This is true not only of the Third World, but in Europe East and West, and in North America. It is no longer a surprise to find a religious factor at work in areas of political tension. Religion and ideology form a mixture which can be of interest to the observer, but in practice dangerous and explosive. Our information about such matters comes for the most part from three types of sources. The first is the media which understand ably tend to concentrate on newsworthy events, without taking the time to deal with the underlying issues of which they are but symptoms. The second source comprises studies by social scientists who often adopt a functionalist and reductionist view of the faith and beliefs which motivate those directly involved in such situations. Finally, there are the statements and writings of those committed to the religious or ideological movements themselves. We seldom lack information, but there is a need often an urgent need - for sound objective analyses which can make use of the best contemporary approaches to both politics and religion. 'Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion' is designed to meet this need. The subject matter is global and this will be reflected in the choice both of topics and of authors. The initial volumes will be concerned primarily with movements involving the Christian religion, but as the series becomes established movements
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth:A Guide to Understanding the Bible
(Zondervan, 1993-03-13) Gordon D. Fee; Douglas Stuart
Every so often we meet someone who says with great feeling, “You don’t have to interpret the Bible; just read it and do what it says.” Usually, such a remark reflects the layperson’s protest against the “professional” scholar, pastor, teacher, or Sunday school teacher, who, by “interpreting,” seems to be taking the Bible away from the common man or woman. It is their way of saying that the Bible is not an obscure book. “After all,” it is argued, “any person with half a brain can read it and understand it. The problem with too many preachers and teachers is that they dig around so much they tend to muddy the waters. What was clear to us when we read it isn’t so clear anymore.” There is a lot of truth in that protest. We agree that Christians should learn to read, believe, and obey the Bible. And we especially agree that the Bible should not be an obscure book if studied and read properly. In fact we are convinced that the single most serious problem people have with the Bible is not with a lack of under standing, but with the fact that they understand most things too well! The problem with such a text as “Do everything without com plaining or arguing” (Phil. 2:14), for example, is not with under standing it, but with obeying it—putting it into practice.
Together in the Land A Reading of the Book of Joshua
(Sheffield Academic Press, 1993-03-23) Gordon Mitchell
The text of Joshua presents the reader with a puzzling contradiction. One the one hand, there are commands to slaughter all of the enemy, descriptions of complete destruction and statements recording the success of the conquest, and on the other hand, Rahab's family, the Gibeonites and others continue to live in the land. To this puzzling contradiction, several explanations have been offered.
Biblical Eldership au Ugernt call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership
(Lewis & Roth Publisher, 1995-04-13) Alexander Strauch
I gratefully acknowledge the help of many dear Christian friends in writing this book. Special thanks is due to my editors, Stephen and Amanda Sorenson, and proofreaders, Barbara Peek and Maggie K. Crossett. Five special friends who have consistently encouraged me in this project through the years are Doyle Roth, Barney Visser, Craig Van Schooneveld, David J. MacLeod, and Paul B. Sapp. Above all, I thank my wife, Marilyn, whose personal sacrifice and support cannot be measured or duly praised
THE SOURCES OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS
(T&T CLARK EDINBURGH, 1995-05-15) Sr. Mary Thomas Noble, O.P.
Vatican Council II, expressing its concern for the renewal of Christian morality, noted that "its scientific exposition should be more thoroughly nourished by scriptural teaching." The Council further urged the re establishment of moral theology's links with dogma and the teaching of the Church Fathers. It reaffirmed the connectedness of moral theology with spirituality, pastoral practice, philosophy, and the behavioral sci ences.1 These directives confirm certain strong currents that have been developing within the Church over the last decades, initiatives of renewal in the fields of Scripture, patristics, liturgy, and ecumenism. One of the principal changes introduced by the Council has been, for the People of God, a new, full access to Scripture and to the liturgy, which is the Word of God prayed by his people. But obviously, no decree or document, however enlightened, can bring about the proposed re forms unaided. What is needed is revision in depth. The theologian, for example, cannot be content with merely multiplying references to Scrip ture or to extensive patristic sources, but must penetrate and grasp the ology's deepest foundations and principles. Most importantly, Christian morality cannot be a mere "given." The riches of its vast heritage have not yet been tapped as have those of Scrip ture and dogma. Christian moral teaching is far more than a catalogue of precepts concerning behavior, classified and more or less determined by particular situations. It must convey a systematic overview of its field, provide basic criteria for judgment, and come to terms with the entire domain of human activity. In the course of the ages, moreover, it has developed its own language and technical procedures.
Christianity Through the Centuries a History of the Christian Church
(Zondervan, 1996-01-24) Earle E.Cairns
AN EXAMINATION OF available church history texts reveals that most of them reflect a particular denominational or theological bias. This text was written from a conservative, nondenominational perspective. A Christian philosophy of history underlies the presentation. Because one can never understand the history of Christianity effectively without some conception of the political, economic, social, intellectual, and artistic movements in each era of history, the events of church history are related to their secular environment. The treatment of persons, places, dates, events, ideas, and trends or movements in their proper temporal and geographical setting helps one grasp the flow of church history. I have given attention to the impact of Christianity on its times and to the mark of the times on Christianity. I have attempted to link information, understanding, and interpretation in a relevant synthesis that has value in the present. I am grateful that after forty years of the use of this text by both teachers and students in the classroom and by the Christian public its continued demand has made an extensive revision desirable and feasible. Constructive suggestions from several people have been most helpful in improving the accuracy and clarity of this work.
Leadership Change
(Harvad Business School Press, 1996-02-14) John P.Kotter
An Expositional Commentary ACTS
(Zondervan, 1996-06-26) James Montgomery Boice
In the last few years I have come across a number of disturbing books that ring a loud alarm for the church establishment known as evangelicalism. Evangel means "good news," or "the gospel," and the evangelical churches are those that assume they know the gospel and are defending it in a day when liberal churches are not. The books I am referring to say that this is not so, that evangelicals are actually in the process of abandoning the gospel along with many other theological convictions on which the church has been built. One outstanding book is David F. Wells's No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? Michael Scott Horton edited Power Religion: The Selling Out of the Evangelical Church.
Jesus on the Leadership Timeles Wisdom on Servant Leadership
(TYNDALE, 1998-06-13) C. Gene Wilkes
It was my opportunity to be led by God to enlist Gene Wilkes to write the curriculum edition of Jesus on Leadership: Becoming a Servant Leader for LifeWay Press. Gene’s message communicates the biblical servant leadership demonstrated by Jesus and has helped equip church leaders to be more effective. In the same way, I believe this tailored Tyndale House edition will have incredible impact on leaders in business, industry, government, and schools, as well as churches. This edition of Jesus on Leadership is simply proof of how God’s energizing presence has brought together spiritual gifts, experiences, relating style, and vocational skills in Gene Wilkes’s life to serve all leaders who desire their lives to please and serve God. The quality of what Gene has done is an example of how God can and does develop a person’s capacity to understand and apply God’s servant leadership principles in the daily walk of life. For God’s touch on Gene’s mind and heart in the writing of Jesus on Leadership, I say, “Thank you, God!” HENRY WEBB, director, Discipleship and Family Leadership Department, publisher of LifeWay Edition of Jesus on Leadership: Becoming a Servant Leader Read at your own risk. Gene Wilkes may change your whole view of leadership. While Jesus on Leadership is a practical tool kit, Wilkes’s unusual writing gifts make it stirring devotional reading as well. And it is no book of theory. This material flows from the heart and hands of an authentic servant leader. Besides living these principles himself, Gene Wilkes has trained and mentored scores of leaders, Jesus-style. I am delighted that he has now spelled out his heart in print for the benefit of thousands. This refreshing book deserves top priority on the reading list of every Christian. I predict it will be around for a long time.