Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past : A Conversation about Loss, Grief, and Nostalgia in Congregational Life

Many congregations today are dealing with changes that have led to decline and significant loss. In Embracing God's Future without Forgetting the Past, Michael K. Girlinghouse argues that until a congregation comes to terms with its perceived losses through a healthy process of grief, it will b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Girlinghouse, Micheal K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nostalgia.
Grief.
Loss (Psychology).
Church attendance.
Religious gatherings > Christianity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : invitation to a conversation
  • part I. Leaving Eden : an introduction to loss, grief, and nostalgia. Empty places : the experience of loss
  • A twisting road : the journey of grief
  • A cloud of witnesses : nostalgia, yearning, and the past
  • part II. Litany of lament : the reality of loss in congregational life. The story of loss : ministry in a world of change
  • A scrapbook of memories : the grief response
  • A well of tears : expressing our grief
  • part III. Opening the blinds : adapting to loss without forgetting the past. An old story in a new key : the roots of adaptive change
  • Being who we are : adaptive change and nostalgia
  • A place at the table : overcoming challenges to adaptive change
  • part IV. Remembering forward : embracing God's future with boldness. A new journey : taking up life again
  • A formula for change : stepping into God's future
  • A new creation : embracing God's future
  • Postlude : a changing church in a changing world.

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