TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Jeff
TI  - Corporate Decision-Making in the Church of the New Testament
SN  - 9780227902790
AV  - BV648 .B755 2014 
U1  - 262 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Havertown
PB  - James Clarke & Co
KW  - Church polity
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Group decision making
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Group decision making in the Bible
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Ecclesiology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Early church
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / Administration
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Historical Background; 2. The First Century CE Cultural Background for the Concept of Corporate Decision-Making; 3. Theological Concepts Entering into Corporate Decision-Making; 4. Scripture Passages Directly Relating to Corporate Decision-Making; 5. Reflection of the New Testament Pattern in Christian Documents from 95 CE to 350 CE; Conclusion; Appendix: Flow Chart of Church Decision-Making-Phil Siefkes; Bibliography; Back cover
N2  - While all churches recognize the need for organization, they are far from agreed about the form that the organization should take. More fundamentally, they do not even agree about the way of deciding. Debates over church organization involve a complex of questions. What role do members play in the government of the church? What are the offices of the church, and what authority do they exercise? What does leadership look like? How are decisions made and enforced?Jeff Brown has written this book in order to move beyond opinion and to discover what the New Testament actually depicts in terms of c
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