Visits to a Growing Evangelical and a Declining Liberal Church in 1978
This note concerns the potential role of controllable local institutional factors (McKinney and Hoge, 1983) in the explanation of church growth and decline. It describes in detail one worship service each in two Presbyterian congregations in adjoining affluent suburbs. One of these congregations, th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1983
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1983, Volume: 44, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-253 |
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| Summary: | This note concerns the potential role of controllable local institutional factors (McKinney and Hoge, 1983) in the explanation of church growth and decline. It describes in detail one worship service each in two Presbyterian congregations in adjoining affluent suburbs. One of these congregations, the evangelical one, has been experiencing rapid growth; the liberal one has been declining for some time. The note isolates the theological difference between the two worship services and concludes with some implications for the conceptualization of theological conservatism in studies of mainline churches. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711505 |