Very good, with minimal shelf wear, a crease in the upper right hand corner of front cover & approx 3/4" stain on the outside page edges. Bumped corner. Unused/Unread/Unmarked Book. ; Trade PB; 11.0 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches; 226 pages; Studying Congregations: A New Handbook - This important new handbook for seminarians and clergy professionals places the congregation itself, rather than individual scholarly disciplines, at the center of congregational analysis. Studying Congregations: A New Handbook is a thoroughgoing revision and update of the leading textbook in the field (A Handbook for Congregational Studies). Using a comprehensive systems approach to congregations, this volume enables readers to analyze the ministries, stories, and processes that are at work in congregations. It provides techniques for studying the congregation as well as a framework for understanding the nature of the congregation. Ammerman, Carroll, Dudley, McKinney and other contributors show readers how to analyze the congregation sociologically, anthropologically and demographically. The volume concludes with an important discussion of the applications of congregational study and presents an appendix of research instruments. Essential reading for seminary students, the handbook is also especially useful for helping pastors and church planners develop better plans and cultivate leadership skills as they examine churches in their respective environments.

0687006511 Ammerman, Nancy Tatom Congregational Ministry Carroll, Jackson W. Dudley, Carl S. McKinney, William Congregation Parishes Church Management