Overview
'Domination Christianity' explores Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy as 'domination through knowledge' -in both Protestant religion and the capitalist culture that it birthed. Management and mission practices have also merged in the last 20 years in such a way as to distort the ongoing ability of mainline Churches to create genuine community. There are several streams of mission attempting to reverse Christianity's decline in the West. Mission Shaped Church is a stream within mainline Christianity that is attempting to do this through creating churches around the needs of the unchurched. Frustratingly all mission initiative is enmeshed in centralized finance and managerial mechanisms. Therefore Church law, policy, regulation and financial priorities control and curb innovation and growth. DOMINATION CHRISTIANITY considers the way practices of hierarchical bureaucracy and management have therefore perpetuated decline in mainline Christian institutions. The way the Gospel is communicated has been distorted to such a degree by these modernist practices as to render it socially impotent in postmodern society.
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Author: Francis Rothery
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9781484834633
ISBN 10: 1484834631
Pages: 92
Publication Date: 03 May 2013
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Francis Rothery is a Community Franciscan in the European Province of the Anglican Communion and a New Monastic. His mission experience emerges from delivering leadership training and development with Partners in Mission International. In collaboration with leaders and churches in Russia, Africa and Pakistan he exercised a ministry of teaching, guidance, governance and spiritual companionship for over 10 years. From 2008 in partnership with the NightChurch Community he developed an ecumenical and contemplative Fresh Expression based in Exeter Cathedral. In this sacred space he initiated new approaches to conversational learning and communal spiritual development. In 2012 he co-started the South West Emergent Cohort as a conversation hub for people of all faiths and none. Francis is also rooted and connected with/in the 'Simply Hub'; a movement for the development of small communities. Alongside spiritual teaching and development Francis has a lifelong involvement in professional social work, alcohol counselling and psychotherapy as a practitioner and in management. He has also lectured in Philosophy and Religious Studies in Further Education and Psychology and Counselling in Adult and Higher Education.
