Congregation: Stories and Structures

Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987. (В файле 212 с.). James F. Hopewell provides a definitive study of congregational life. His thesis: we must understand each congregation's unique story that catches up and gives pattern to a church’s local culture – its beliefs, its mission work, and its everyday administrative transactions, because it also reveals God's intention for that community of believers. At the time of his death in 1984, James F. Hopewell was Professor of Religion and the Church and Director of the Rollins Center for Church Ministries at the Candler School of theology, Emory University.