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The Place Of Human Services In The Uniting Church In Western Australia : Perceptions Of The Ministers And Some Consideration Of Issues For Service Delivery, Ki-Soo Jang

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis explores the relationship between the provision of human services and the role of the church with special reference to the Uniting Church's role in Western Australia. The church's involvement in human service is examined as an expression of the church's responsibility to practise the religious teachings of compassion and charity. However, such claims as to the church's responsibility were received with degrees of acceptance and resentment by different church denominations. Despite the definite teachings of the Bible about the importance of the church to the world of which it is a part, as this study has explored, they …