Author
John Fitzmaurice
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Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
February 2016
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Author
John Fitzmaurice
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
February 2016
£181.85
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Virtue Ecclesiology
Today's Price £181.85
Critiquing a paradigm of growth within the Church, this book contends that the Church's growth ethic should be replaced by one based on virtue. Drawing on the work of Sennett, Fromm, and Hauerwas, John Fitzmaurice argues that an approach taking growth to be the overriding task of the Church is found to be shallow and risks infantilising the faith it purports to proclaim. MacIntyre's proposal for a recovery of a virtue-based ethic is examined and interpreted theologically through the concepts of narrative theology, community, sacraments and sanctification; the role of 'practices' in developing virtuous character is central. The nature of a virtuous organisation is explored through a lens of organisational psychodynamics; this understanding informs a model of Church as a Community of Interpretation. Fitzmaurice suggests that it is in and though sacramental practices that the transitional space for these virtues to be formed is created.
Tracing a similar corrosion of character within secular institutions that have opted for an overriding focus on growth, this book offers an alternative based on the formation of corporate, as well as individual, virtuous character and considers the implications of a virtue-based growth ethic on theological education and ministerial formation as well as in terms of public theology and the manner of the Church's engagement with society.
Author
John Fitzmaurice
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group
Published
February 2016
Edition
New edition
Weight
527g
Page Count
246
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 17 mm
ISBN
9781472463319
ISBN-10
1472463315
Eden Code
4365814
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Author/Creator: John Fitzmaurice
ISBN: 9781472463319
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Release Date: February 2016
Weight: 527g
Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Eden Code: 4365814