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

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How the Study Came About

Acknowledgments

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CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"

Concerning This Book

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CHAPTER 2 Crucible of Crisis:

Background of the Congregation

Footnotes

Where Are the Churches?: Denominational Response to Crisis

Don't Just Stand There: The Miami Presbytery Responds

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CHAPTER 3 In the Beginning: The Genesis of the Congregation

Calling a Pastor

Passive Resistance to Early Organizational Efforts

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

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

Getting Their Thing Together: Internal Dissension over Goals

The Providential Loophole: Union Church

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CHAPTER 4 Parental Disappointment: The Problem of Goals

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

Physician Heal Thyself: The United Fund Comes Under Attack

The United People Campaign

United People Strategy Reconsidered

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

Outreach or Overreach?

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Gulf Boycott Coalition

The Potentially Prodigious Snowball: Interpreting GBC Strategy

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CHAPTER 7 The Question of Strategy: Conflict in Context

A Dramaturgical Model for Interpreting Action and Conflict

Symbiosis: The Congregation and the Media

But What of Conflict and Christian Theology?

Another Side of Righter

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CHAPTER 8 Organizational Imperatives: The Internal Dynamics of the Congregation

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CHAPTER 9 Successful in Life: The Cincinnati Experiment

A Pastor Is Called

We Gather Together: Forming a Congregation

The Bible Says . . . : Interpreting Social Action

Action in Search of an Issue

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

To Conservatives with Love . . . From 475

The Dayton Congregation for Reconciliation Under Kelley's Microscope

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CHAPTER 11 Quo Vadis: Whither Liberal Protestantism?

The Imperative of Planning

Opportunities Lost

Models and Strategies for Social Action: Pondering the Future

Conclusion: A Challenge

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Footnotes

[1]

See Warren G. Bennis, Changing Organizations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966); Warren G. Bennis and Philip E. Slater, The Temporary Society (New York: Harper 8c Row, 1968); Warren G. Bennis, "Post Bureaucratic Leadership," Trans-action 6 (July 1969), pp. 45-51; Victor A. Thompson, Modern Organizations (New York: Knopf, 1961).

[2]

This assessment of the "Beyond Bureaucracy" school, an assessment which we essentially share, is made by Charles Perrow in Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1972).

[3]

Elihu Katz and S. N. Eisenstadt, "Some Sociological Observations on the Response of Israeli" Organizations to New Immigrants," Administrative Science Quarterly 5 (1960), pp. 113-3.

[4]

Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968), pp. 2764-65.

[5]

The history of the churches' dealing with racial injustice through resolutions is documented in Ernest Q. Campbell and Thomas F. Pettigrew, Christians in Racial Crisis (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1959).