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Collaborative Parish Leadership - Contexts, Models, Theology (Hardcover)
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Collaborative Parish Leadership - Contexts, Models, Theology (Hardcover)
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These essays explore team-based parish leadership theologically,
sociologically, and pastorally in a variety of cultures and
circumstances. The result is an extended conversation, both
practical and deeply reflective, emerging from the collaboration of
theologians, social researchers, organizational development
specialists, and pastoral ministers. Collaborative Parish
Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and
insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnerships out of
which it has grown. These include "Project INSPIRE," a pastoral
team-formation project sponsored by Loyola University and the
Archdiocese of Chicago and funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., as
part of its Sustaining Pastoral Excellence initiative. Another
partner initiative is the international pastoral minister exchange
"Crossing Over," involving several Catholic dioceses in northwest
Germany and based at Ruhr Universitat, Bochum. Authors of these
essays have also been involved in Emerging Models of Pastoral
Leadership, the Congregational Studies Team's Engaged Scholars
fellowship (both also Lilly Endowment funded projects), and other
projects. Collaborative Parish Leadership employs
practical-theological methods, rooted in pastoral experience and
integrated with scholarly reflection. Opening essays deal with the
current situation of U.S. parishes, the parish consultancy model of
Project INSPIRE, and a case study of several parishes that
benefited from the project. The following chapters present
comparative case studies of collaborative leadership in various
settings: multicultural parishes in different parts of the U.S.,
parish clusters consolidating into single parishes using very
different processes, and parishes in Chicago and Mexico City
meeting similar urban challenges. Three authors associated with
CrossingOver and its participating dioceses assess the general
state of parish reorganization in Germany, and the potential of the
unique approach to team leadership taken in the French archdiocese
of Poitiers. The final chapters reflect on the theology of parish
leadership from pastoral and systematic perspectives, and on the
future needs and possibilities of collaborative approaches.
Overall, Collaborative Parish Leadership engages and challenges
academic and pastoral leaders in diverse social and ecclesial
situations, suggests multiple models for cultivating collaboration,
builds connections between collaborative action and theological
development.
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