Glimpses of Recent History: The National Council Of Churches, 1974-2004
During the last three decades, the National Council of Churches endured the changing socio-political landscape of the 1960s; heated debates regarding homosexuality; efforts at redefinition (both theologically and organizationally) in the mid-1980s; internal dissension with its largest subsidiary, Ch...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2006, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 152-169 |
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| Summary: | During the last three decades, the National Council of Churches endured the changing socio-political landscape of the 1960s; heated debates regarding homosexuality; efforts at redefinition (both theologically and organizationally) in the mid-1980s; internal dissension with its largest subsidiary, Church World Service; race and the Burned Churches Project; the fiscal crises of the 1990s and its near-demise. But despite all of this, the council managed to return to stability after 2000. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Presbyterian history
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