Aquifer Analysis: Told And Untold Stories In Warwick Churches, Vaughan S. Roberts
Nov 2014
Aquifer Analysis: Told And Untold Stories In Warwick Churches, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
It was originally a presentation to a seminar on organizational storytelling at Lincoln Business School in 2013 exploring how told and untold stories were filtered during a narrative review by a team of churches in Warwick, UK.
Review Of Leadership & Oversight By Malcolm Grundy And Managing By Henry Mintzberg, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 2012
Review Of Leadership & Oversight By Malcolm Grundy And Managing By Henry Mintzberg, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
The full review of Grundy's Leadership & Oversight and Mintzberg's Management of which an edited version appeared in Third Way magazine
Review Of As One With Authority By Jackson W. Carroll, Vaughan S. Roberts
Dec 2011
Review Of As One With Authority By Jackson W. Carroll, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
A review of Jackson W. Carroll's As One With Authority: Reflective Leadership in Ministry (second edition), Cascade Books, 2011
A Body Of Consensus: The Church As Embodied Organization, Vaughan S. Roberts
Dec 1999
A Body Of Consensus: The Church As Embodied Organization, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
This chapter examines how thinking about the nature of embodiment might inform an understanding of how this metaphor is used to describe the Church. It begins by looking at two important metaphorical uses of the body in the New Testament (the Last Supper and the Church as the Body of Christ) and then employs ideas from the writings of Mark Johnson, John O’Neil, Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling to see how they could inform theological notions of embodied unity, diversity, contingency and dialectic. It concludes by arguing that the Church is an embodiment of consensus and conflict.
Theology For The Beach, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 1998
Theology For The Beach, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
Arising from my paper ‘The Sea of Faith: After Dover Beach’ (1997) this presentation to an annual conference of naval chaplains explores how water and sea might function as organizational metaphors for chaplaincy ministry. A fully revised version was published as ‘Water as an implicit metaphor for organizational change within the Church’ (2002) in the journal Implicit Religion and can be found here: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/IR/article/view/2946/
The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts
Jun 1997
The Beginning And End Of The Church, Vaughan S. Roberts
Vaughan S Roberts
This paper brings together some organizational insights from within the Church (Carl Dudley’s ideas on rigorous and relational faith) and from outside the Church (Nils Brunsson’s thinking on action and political groupings) to explore how these might inform an understanding of the Church’s telos or purpose. It concludes by arguing that Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of universities as places of constrained disagreement might also be a good model for this telos.
