Tag: The Other Six Days
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The Other Six Days: C4 – Personal Vocation
The Other Six Days Part Two – Summoned and Equipped by God: Chapter 4 – Calling in a Post-vocational Age Personal Vocation Chapter 4 is pivotal in how Stevens unfolds the idea of ministry later in the book. The focus of this chapter is calling in a post-vocational age. Vocation simply means "to be called."…
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The Other Six Days: C3 – The Trinity and the Nature of the Church
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 3 – One God – One People One God – Three Persons …Like their God the people of God have ministry that is both creative (making) and restorative (mending); ministry is both unitive (connecting) and curative (correcting) – thus challenging the…
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The Other Six Days: C3 – Two Peoples or One?
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 3 – One God – One People It is widely acknowledged that pastors are facing an identity crisis, a crisis which may be deepened by the pastor-as-equipper emphasis now being promoted by many, including myself. Simply put, if there is no…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Emergence of the Clergy
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Emergence of Clergy Stevens identifies three influences that led to the emergence of clergy in the Church: Imitation of the secular structures of the Greek-Roman world, not unlike the professional-lay distinctions in the modern world.…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Ministry in the Old and New Covenants
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Ministry in the Old and New Covenants Stevens compares the differences between ministry in the Old Testament and ministry in the New Testament. Here are twelve shifts he identifies on page 33, with the OT…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Laity and Clergy
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Stevens partitions Chapter 2 into three sections: A People Without 'Laity' A People Without 'Clergy' The Emergence of the Clergy Stevens deconstructs these terms and explores how the laity/clergy framework emerged. I will briefly examine…
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The Other Six Days: C1 – Beyond Academic Theology
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 1 – Doing People Theology Beyond Academic Theology The first two sections of this chapter have called for us to move beyond clericalized theology and unapplied theology. In this last section of chapter 1, Stevens focuses on theology's captivity to academia.…
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The Other Six Days: C1 – Beyond Unapplied Theology
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 1 – Doing People Theology Beyond Unapplied Theology “To most ordinary people formal academic theology seems abstracted from life, a matter lamented by Lesslie Newbigin who notes how the work of scholars makes it appear to the ordinary Christian that no…
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The Other Six Days: C1 – Beyond Clericalized Theology
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 1 – Doing People Theology Beyond Clericalized Theology Stevens' original title for this book, when first published in the UK in 1999, was "The Abolition of the Laity." I like that title, but I suspect it didn't play well in some…