What is it about?
This paper examines the Church as an organization, arguing that Alasdair MacIntyre’s image of universities as places of constrained disagreement is also a good metaphor for this the Church.
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Why is it important?
It brings together 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.
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The is the third in a series of studies which uses metaphor to explore the organizational nature of the Church and its ministry.
Dr Vaughan S Roberts
Coventry Cathedral
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This page is a summary of: The Beginning and End of the Church?, Theology, July 1997, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0040571x9710000405.
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