Description: Congregations today face both old and often new,
unprecedented challenges--spiritual, moral, technological, and
economic--for which there are no easy solutions. Facing such
challenges calls for pastors able to lead with authority in ways at
the same time faithful to the gospel and appropriate to the
congregation's setting and the issues at hand. Yet many pastors are
unsure of their authority, often experiencing conflict as they
attempt to lead. Others have abused their authority and brought
mistrust and suspicion to ordained ministry, making it difficult
for other clergy to lead. In this book, a new and revised edition
of his earlier, highly regarded work on pastoral authority and
leadership, Jackson Carroll brings together theological and
sociological perspectives to provide an interpretation of pastoral
authority as reflective leadership, a style of leadership that
involves vision and discernment, and that is appropriate for the
many roles in which pastors engage--preaching, worship leadership,
teaching, counseling, and shaping the congregation's corporate
life. In this new edition Carroll draws on what he has learned from
many conversations with pastors and lay leaders since the book's
initial publication as well as insights from others. He also
introduces helpful new case material from practicing pastors and
incorporates the perspectives of several recent leadership
theorists and practitioners to deepen and enhance the discussion of
pastoral authority as reflective leadership. Endorsements: ""When a
book is described as a 'classic, ' it means it stands the test of
time. Its message is as important today as when the author first
put pen to paper. Jackson Carroll's As One With Authority is a
classic. This book remains essential reading for every church
leader who wants to understand the unique kind of leadership needed
in congregations. This is one of those rare books that should never
sit neglected on a shelf. It is meant to be read, marked, learned,
and inwardly digested--and shared with a new generation of
pastors."" -Michael Jinkins President Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary ""Based on solid theological and sociological
research, and several decades of astute observation, Jackson
Carroll has updated his classic work on As One With Authority, and
just in time to benefit those clergy who are questioning their
authority. Jackson clarifies the narrative of pastoral authority as
reflective leadership and takes us back to those biblical roots as
old as Paul, Jesus, Isaiah, and Moses. This is a penetrating
exposition of the biblical vision of the way pastoral ministry
should be done, and is the first book every beginning student of
ministry should read. I recommend it most highly."" -Robert E.
Cooley President Emeritus Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
""Pastors need the expertise that allows them to read the social
situation and interpret their traditions, but also an ear for the
calling and vision that lends their work 'sacred weight.' Building
on the insight sociology has to offer and his own keen theological
sensibilities, Carroll speaks here 'as one with authority.'""
-Nancy T. Ammerman Professor of Sociology of Religion Boston
University About the Contributor(s): Jackson W. Carroll is the Ruth
W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor Emeritus of Religion and
Society at Duke University Divinity School, where he also was
project director of Pulpit & Pew: Research on Pastoral
Leadership. An ordained United Methodist minister, he has most
recently authored God's Potters: Pastoral Leadership and the
Shaping of Congregations (2006). He has also written extensively on
pastoral ministry and congregations, including Mainline to the
Future: Congregations for the 21st Century (2000).
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