The calling of the laity : Verna Dozier's anthology
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog8818
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 687 C34 1988
- Place of Publication
- [Washington DC]
- Publisher
- Alban Institute
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- vii, 149 p. ; 22.8 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- Verna Dozier "has gathered important writings -- her own and others' -- that answer three vital questions about ministry in the world. Part I addresses the question, `How does one make decisions when the choice is only between lesser evils ?' The task of the lay person is not as clear as choosing the good rather than the evil. These readings point to the agonizingly ambiguous questions most Christians face in daily work. What does an editor print -- and why ? How do politicians and bank tellers make tough choices and live with them ? Part II asks, `How does one live with the incomplete -- never quite making it ?' These readings point to the tough, slogging work that's involved in dealing with big issues -- getting state mental health policy changed, or dealing with hazardous waste. Part III asks the question, `How can we educate so that the resources of the faith are there for strength and not for solutions ?' This section addresses the relationship between the church and the world, theological issues related to the ministry of the laity, and specifically ways the institutional church can support the ministry of the laity where they live and work". -- inside front cover.
- Contents divided into three main parts: I: Making Decisions -- II: Living with the Incomplete -- III: Educational Support Systems. Part III divided into three sub-sections: Relationship between the Church and the World -- The Theological Issues -- New Challenges for the Institution.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Where are the ministers of the laity ? -- Faith and Politics : Our Ministry as Citizens / Eleanor N. Lewis and Mimi Waxter -- Lay Ministry Battle Story : Grey Areas in Black Type / Chris Satullo -- Service Is Her Business / Bill Robinson -- Prophets to Profit / Robert K. Massie, Jr. -- The Minstry of the Laity : Reflections for Study and Debate / Neil M. Alexander -- Saturday's Ministries / Mark Gibbs -- A Ministry with the Developmentally Disabled / Joan Irving -- Confronting the National Security State : Ex-NSA Agent, Wife Tell of Ordeal : Interview of Margie and John Gilbert / Robert L. DeWitt and Mary Lou Suhor -- Hazardous Waste and Holy Ground / John Finn -- Lay Ministry Battle Story / Emma Lou Benignus -- Is This Ministry ? / Neil Braxton Gibson -- Ministry in the Marketplace / William E. Diehl -- Practicing the Public Life in the Congregation / Parker Palmer -- From a Paper prepared for a workshop on lay ministry at Christ Church, Little Rock / N. Patrick Murray -- Where in the World is the Church / Celia A. Hahn -- Ministries Outside the Parish / Mark Gibbs -- "No Moment During the Week is `Recess' from Ministry / Barbara Campbell -- Are Laity Being Shortchanged ? / Patricia Garrett Drake -- A Sacred Space / Verna J. Dozier -- Toward a Theology of the Laity / Verna J. Dozier -- A Biblical Base for Ministry / Verna J. Dozier -- Empowering the Ministries of the Laity : How Congregations Can Go About It / Jacqueline McMakin and Rhoda Nary -- Challenge to Ministry : Opportunities for Older Persons / Emma Lou Benignus -- Equipping the Saints through Supervision / David S. Young.
- Series
- Alban Institute publication ; AL 106
- Added Entry
- Dozier, Verna J. (Verna Josephine), 1917-2006
- Alban Institute
- Alexander, Neil M.
- Benignus, Emma Lou, 1909-2005
- Campbell, Barbara
- DeWitt, Robert L. (Robert Lionne), 1916-2003
- Diehl, William E. (William Edward), 1925-
- Drake, Patricia Garrett
- Finn, John
- Gibbs, Mark
- Gibson, Nell Braxton
- Hahn, Celia A. (Celia Allison)
- Irving, Joan
- Lewis, Eleanor N.
- Massie, Robert (Robert Kinloch), 1956-
- McMakin, Jacqueline
- Murray, N. Patrick
- Nary, Rhoda
- Palmer, Parker J., 1939-
- Robinson, Bill
- Satullo, Chris
- Suhor, Mary Lou, 1929-2015
- Waxter, Mimi
- Young, David S.
- Subjects
- Laity
- Lay ministry
- Lay ministry - Episcopal Church
- Christian ethics
- Decision making - Moral and ethical aspects
- Work - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Church and social problems
- Call Number
- BV 687 C34 1988
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)