Who Shall Lead Them?
The Future of Ministry in America
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 November 2006
- ISBN 9780195315936
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 146x228x17 mm
- Weight 349 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The clergy faces mounting challenges in a secular world, where declining prestige makes it difficult to attract the best and the bright young Americans to the ministry. This book offers a snapshot of this contemporary clergy drama. It is intended for those concerned about the shifting ground of our churches and the health of religion in America.
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The clergy today faces mounting challenges in an increasingly secular world, where declining prestige makes it more difficult to attract the best and the brightest young Americans to the ministry. As Christian churches dramatically adapt to modern changes, some are asking whether there is a clergy crisis as well. Whatever the future of the clergy, the fate of millions of churchgoers also will be at stake.
In Who Shall Lead Them?, prizewinning journalist Larry Witham takes the pulse of both the Protestant and Catholic ministry in America and provides a mixed diagnosis of the calling's health. Drawing on dozens of interviews with clergy, seminarians and laity, and using newly available survey data including the 2000 Census, Witham reveals the trends in a variety of traditions. While evangelicals are finding innovative paths to ministry, the Catholic priesthood faces a severe shortage. In mainline Protestantism, ministry as a second career has become a prominent feature. Ordination ages in the Episcopal and United Methodist churches average in the 40s today. The quest by female clergy to lead from the pulpit, meanwhile, has hit a "stained glass ceiling" as churches still prefer a man as the principal minister. While deeply motivated by the mystery of their "call" to ministry, America's priests, pastors, and ministers are reassessing their roles in a world of new debates on leadership, morality, and the powers of the mass media.
Who Shall Lead Them? offers a valuable snapshot of this contemporary clergy drama. It will be required reading for everyone concerned about the rapidly shifting ground of our churches and the health of religion in America.
"A balanced and nuanced view of several key aspects of contemporary ministry: the 'call' to this life, the divergent roles of Protestant ministers, the Roman Catholic priesthood, Southern Baptists, and the influence of the 'born-again' and minorities. The direction ministry takes will have an effect on millions of church-goers, and so Witham's work is both valuable and timely. Recommended for most libraries and essential for church and seminary libraries."--Library Journal
