Category: Series: Leading From the Center (Book Discussion)
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Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church (Book Discussion Index)
The following is an index for the book discussion on Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church. Introduction Chapter 1 – Too Big Chapter 2 – Too Small Chapter 3- Just Right Chapter 4 – The Half-Finished Story of the Fidelity and Chastity Competition Chapter 5 – What is Normal in the…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 7 – A Modest Proposal: Presbyters Rule
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part III: Where can we go? Chapter 7 – A Modest Proposal: Presbyters Rule In the seventh and final chapter, Weston gives his insights into how to deal with present conflicts, what he referred to in the Introduction as the "competitive…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 6 – Practical Principles for a Competitive Church
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part III: Where can we go? Chapter 6 – Practical Principles for a Competitive Church Chapter 6 is a brief review of three significant episodes in the life of the Presbyterian Church. Weston is looking to our history for clues on…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 5 – What is Normal in the Presbyterian Church Today?
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part II: Where are we now? Chapter 5 – What is Normal in the Presbyterian Church? Weston uses the word "normal" here to mean typical for the PCUSA. I think the best place to begin with this chapter is the conclusion.…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 4 – The Half-Finished Story of the Fidelity and Chastity Competition
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part II: Where are we now? Chapter 4 – The Half-Finished Story of the Fidelity and Chastity Competition. Chapter 4 is the first of two chapters addressing the question posed by Part Two of the book: Where are we now? Weston…
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Leading From The Center: Chapter 3 – Just Right
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part I: How did we get here? Chapter 3 – Just Right: The Loyalist Constitutional Church of the Special Commission of 1925. Chapter 3 picks up where the story of Machen and friends left off in Chapter 2. The 1925 General…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 2 – Too Small
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part I: How did we get here? Chapter 2 – Too Small: The Pure Conservative Church of J. Gresham Machen. The second chapter introduces us to J. Gresham Machen, a Presbyterian professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (1906-1929). The…
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Leading From the Center: Chapter 1 – Too Big
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church by William J. Weston Part I: How did we Get Here? Chapter 1 – Too Big: The Inclusive Liberal Church of Charles A. Briggs The first chapter introduces us to Charles A. Briggs, a Presbyterian professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York in the…
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Leading From the Center: Introduction
Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church This is the first of eight posts discussing Dr. William J. “Beau” Weston’s book Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church, published in 2003. Weston is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. (He also has a great…