Who Shall Lead Them? The Future of Ministry in America

Name: Who Shall Lead Them? The Future of Ministry in America
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ISBN: 9780195166972

ISBN-10: 0195166973

ISBN-13: 9780195166972

Edition: 2005

Authors: Larry A. Witham

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The clergy today faces mounting challenges in an increasingly secular world, where declining prestige makes it more difficult to attract the best and the brightest young Americans to the ministry. As Christian churches dramatically adapt to modern changes, some are asking whether there is a clergy crisis as well. Whatever the future of the clergy, the fate of millions of churchgoers also will be at stake. In Who Shall Lead Them?, prizewinning journalist Larry Witham takes the pulse of both the Protestant and Catholic ministry in America and provides a mixed diagnosis of the calling's health. Drawing on dozens of interviews with clergy, seminarians and laity, and using newly available survey…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: Interesting Times



Call to Ministry



The Protestant Divide



Women in Ministry



The Catholic Priesthood



Southern Baptists



The Minority Challenge



Spirit Filled



Organized Religion



Fault Lines



Image Makers



The Soul of Ministry


Notes


Index