The Hero and the Minister in American Culture
“America within the past hundred years has produced a panoply of images of ministry, which have remarkably paralleled the changing image of the hero in secular journals and magazines … When images of the minister become an issue, either for the pastor or the congregation, there is a dual temptation....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1977
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Theology today
Year: 1977, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 370-380 |
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| Summary: | “America within the past hundred years has produced a panoply of images of ministry, which have remarkably paralleled the changing image of the hero in secular journals and magazines … When images of the minister become an issue, either for the pastor or the congregation, there is a dual temptation. Some struggle to escape the old images … But there is also another temptation. Many ministers are tempted to barricade themselves within inherited images.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367703300407 |