Gideon`s Gang: A Case Study Of The Church In Social Action

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Preface

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How the Study Came About

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"

Interview

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Concerning This Book

CHAPTER 2 Crucible of Crisis:

Background of the Congregation

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Where Are the Churches?: Denominational Response to Crisis

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Don't Just Stand There: The Miami Presbytery Responds

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Summary

CHAPTER 3 In the Beginning: The Genesis of the Congregation

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Calling a Pastor

Passive Resistance to Early Organizational Efforts

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. . . And Ask Questions Later: Instant Action Without Organization

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. . . And Now You Come at Noon: Organizational Postponement Analyzed

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Getting Their Thing Together: Internal Dissension over Goals

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The Providential Loophole: Union Church

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CHAPTER 4 Parental Disappointment: The Problem of Goals

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One Meeting, Two Agendas: Divergent Definitions of Mission

One Man's Meat ...; Initial Recruitment and Goal Definition

What Might Have Been: A Post Hoc Scenario

Failure by Default or Subversion?

A Matter of Interpretation

Unintended Consequences of Purposive Social Action: A Blunder

Live or Let Die: An Administrative Dilemma

But We Thought You Said . . .

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CHAPTER 5 At War with the Angels: The United People Campaign

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Physician Heal Thyself: The United Fund Comes Under Attack

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The United People Campaign

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United People Strategy Reconsidered

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Summary

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CHAPTER 6 Gideon's Gang Marches Again: The Gulf Boycott

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Outreach or Overreach?

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Gulf Boycott Coalition

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The Potentially Prodigious Snowball: Interpreting GBC Strategy

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CHAPTER 7 The Question of Strategy: Conflict in Context

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A Dramaturgical Model for Interpreting Action and Conflict

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Symbiosis: The Congregation and the Media

But What of Conflict and Christian Theology?

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Another Side of Righter

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CHAPTER 8 Organizational Imperatives: The Internal Dynamics of the Congregation

CHAPTER 9 Successful in Life: The Cincinnati Experiment

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A Pastor Is Called

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We Gather Together: Forming a Congregation

The Bible Says . . . : Interpreting Social Action

Action in Search of an Issue

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You Scratch My Back and . . . . : Reciprocity and Accountability

On Death and Dying: Terminating an Experimental Congregation

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CHAPTER 10 Toughing Out the Storm

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To Conservatives with Love . . . From 475

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The Dayton Congregation for Reconciliation Under Kelley's Microscope

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CHAPTER 11 Quo Vadis: Whither Liberal Protestantism?

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The Imperative of Planning

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Opportunities Lost

Models and Strategies for Social Action: Pondering the Future

Conclusion: A Challenge

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[1]

Charles Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (New York: Random House, 1970), p. 11. Used by permission.

[2]

Ibid.

[3]

Peter L. Berger, Brigitte Berger, and Hansfried Kellner, The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness (New York: Random House, 1973).

University of Virginia Library

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