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Gideon`s Gang: A Case Study Of The Church In Social Action
[title page]
Contents
Foreword
Preface
[section]
Footnotes
How the Study Came About
Acknowledgments
1.
CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"
Interview
[section]
Concerning This Book
2.
CHAPTER 2 Crucible of Crisis:
Background of the Congregation
Footnotes
Where Are the Churches?: Denominational Response to Crisis
Footnotes
Don't Just Stand There: The Miami Presbytery Responds
Footnotes
Summary
3.
CHAPTER 3 In the Beginning: The Genesis of the Congregation
[section]
Calling a Pastor
Passive Resistance to Early Organizational Efforts
Footnotes
. . . And Ask Questions Later: Instant Action Without Organization
Footnotes
. . . And Now You Come at Noon: Organizational Postponement Analyzed
Footnotes
Getting Their Thing Together: Internal Dissension over Goals
Footnotes
The Providential Loophole: Union Church
Footnotes
Summary
4.
CHAPTER 4 Parental Disappointment: The Problem of Goals
[section]
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 . . .
Footnotes
Summary
5.
CHAPTER 5 At War with the Angels: The United People Campaign
[section]
Footnotes
Physician Heal Thyself: The United Fund Comes Under Attack
Footnotes
The United People Campaign
Footnotes
United People Strategy Reconsidered
Footnotes
Summary
Footnotes
6.
CHAPTER 6 Gideon's Gang Marches Again: The Gulf Boycott
[section]
Footnotes
Outreach or Overreach?
Footnotes
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Gulf Boycott Coalition
Footnotes
The Potentially Prodigious Snowball: Interpreting GBC Strategy
Summary
7.
CHAPTER 7 The Question of Strategy: Conflict in Context
[section]
Footnotes
A Dramaturgical Model for Interpreting Action and Conflict
Footnotes
Symbiosis: The Congregation and the Media
But What of Conflict and Christian Theology?
Footnotes
Another Side of Righter
Footnotes
8.
CHAPTER 8 Organizational Imperatives: The Internal Dynamics of the Congregation
9.
CHAPTER 9 Successful in Life: The Cincinnati Experiment
[section]
A Pastor Is Called
Footnotes
We Gather Together: Forming a Congregation
The Bible Says . . . : Interpreting Social Action
Action in Search of an Issue
Footnotes
You Scratch My Back and . . . . : Reciprocity and Accountability
On Death and Dying: Terminating an Experimental Congregation
Summary
Footnotes
10.
CHAPTER 10 Toughing Out the Storm
[section]
Footnotes
To Conservatives with Love . . . From 475
Footnotes
The Dayton Congregation for Reconciliation Under Kelley's Microscope
11.
CHAPTER 11 Quo Vadis: Whither Liberal Protestantism?
[section]
The Imperative of Planning
Footnotes
Opportunities Lost
Models and Strategies for Social Action: Pondering the Future
Conclusion: A Challenge
Footnotes
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"News and Notes for the Session," Presbyterian Life (Mar. 1, 1971), pp. 39-40.
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