Keeping Faith in Faith-Based Organizations: A Practical Theology of Salvation Army Health Ministry
Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) often acknowledge the slippery slope from the foundational faith that motivated their existence toward compromises in a secular or different religious context. Practical theology develops in a dynamic context when doctrinal constructs and ministry happen. With almost...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 153-155 |
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| Summary: | Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) often acknowledge the slippery slope from the foundational faith that motivated their existence toward compromises in a secular or different religious context. Practical theology develops in a dynamic context when doctrinal constructs and ministry happen. With almost one hundred and fifty years of integrating faith and works in the cities of the world, few Christian movements in modern history know that tension better than the Salvation Army. Founded by William and Catherine Booth in 1865, among the extreme poverty and social decay of the East End of London, the couple spent their lives ministering among the homeless, sick, addicted, unemployed, uneducated, and marginalized. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst124 |