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Missional Interim Ministry Processes A Case Study, Christopher Edwin Hagen
Missional Interim Ministry Processes A Case Study, Christopher Edwin Hagen
Doctor of Ministry Theses
A case study of conducting an interim missionally. Presents theological and theoretical bases for missional interim processes and description of an actual interim period in which the interim was approached missionally. Units of analyses are environment/context, power/leadership, conflict, organizational restructuring, trust, and conventional interim tasks. Interpretation of data is by time-sequence analysis and explanation building.
Charismatic power yielded to democratic expressions through process of legitimization. Political organizing within congregation was method for power transformation. Goal was communicative action that discerned the mission of God, determined congregation’s calling within that mission, and described congregation’s ministries to carry out its calling. i
Reframing Mission: An Action-Research Intervention Into A Mainline Judicatory, Dwight J. Zscheile
Reframing Mission: An Action-Research Intervention Into A Mainline Judicatory, Dwight J. Zscheile
Doctor of Philosophy Theses
A system-wide, action-research intervention into a mainline church judicatory sought to empower its members to respond to the adaptive challenges facing them through reframing their understanding of mission in light of their changing context and theological tradition, and through actively discerning the leading of the Holy Spirit. Recognizing that the problems facing mainline denominational systems in 21st century America require attention to foundational questions of identity and purpose in a post-Christendom era, this study utilized a multi-layered, participatory process that encouraged grass-roots transformation.
Over the course of one year, approximately 2,000 members of a diocese of the Episcopal Church participated …