Exploring Integrity in the Christian Church

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-65686-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

This book presents a philosophical and theological analysis of the concept of integrity. Using case studies, it offers a view of integrity which is focused in: identity (individual and corporate); responsibility (for critical reflection on identity and related ideas and feelings associated with worth, mutual and plural accountability, and shared responsibility for creating and creation); ongoing learning (individual and corporate). Simon Robinson brings together Aristotelian and existentialist perspectives, agapeic theology, and wider leadership and governance theory, and in doing so connects ecclesiology, Christian Ethics, pastoral theology, church leadership and governance. Robinson focuses on praxis, reflection on how the Christian church engages its members and the world, and how it can learn and develop peacebuilding. Critical to this the development of genuine dialogue, individual and shared narrative building, and the corporate framework of virtues and virtue development, which connects individual and corporate agency.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: A theology of integrity.- Chapter Two: The Soul of the Church.- Chapter Three: Leadership and the church.- Chapter Four: A spirituality of leadership formation and the virtues.- Chapter five: The integrity of pastoral care.- Chapter six: the integrity of worship.- Chapter seven: the integrity of prophecy.- Chapter eight : Integrity and Mission.- Chapter nine: Integrity, justice and forgiveness in the church.- Chapter Ten: Integrity and theology.

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Applied and Professional Ethics at Leeds Beckett University, and Honorary Research Fellow of Theology at the University of Leeds, UK.