How your church family works :
Steinke, Peter L.
How your church family works : understanding congregations as emotional systems / Peter L. Steinke. - Washington, DC : Alban Institute, c1993. - xii, 128 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-128)
PART 1. Conceptualizing emotional processes: The concept of a system -- Anxiety and reactivity -- Separateness and closeness -- Stability and change -- Clarity and compassion -- PART 2. The congregation as an emotional system: Do not go gently into that glob of glue -- Being a prophet is nice work-if you can find a job -- What shall it profit a parish if it gets over the hump but falls into the abyss -- Remembering the future -- Believing and belonging.
1566991102
AL142 Alban Institute
93202708
Parishes--Psychology.
Church controversies
System theory
BV640 / .S785 1993
253
How your church family works : understanding congregations as emotional systems / Peter L. Steinke. - Washington, DC : Alban Institute, c1993. - xii, 128 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-128)
PART 1. Conceptualizing emotional processes: The concept of a system -- Anxiety and reactivity -- Separateness and closeness -- Stability and change -- Clarity and compassion -- PART 2. The congregation as an emotional system: Do not go gently into that glob of glue -- Being a prophet is nice work-if you can find a job -- What shall it profit a parish if it gets over the hump but falls into the abyss -- Remembering the future -- Believing and belonging.
1566991102
AL142 Alban Institute
93202708
Parishes--Psychology.
Church controversies
System theory
BV640 / .S785 1993
253
