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

  
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Contents
  
Foreword
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Preface
  
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Footnotes
  
How the Study Came About
  
Acknowledgments

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CHAPTER 1 "A Groovy Trip While It Lasted"
  
Interview
  
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Concerning This Book
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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
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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
  
Summary
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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
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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
  
Summary
  
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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
  
Footnotes

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GIDE0N'S GANG
A Case Study
Of The Church
In Social Action

By
Jeffrey K. Hadden&
Charles F. Longino, Jr.

Philadelphia
United Church Press
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