Steinke, Peter L.

How your church family works : understanding congregations as emotional systems / Peter L. Steinke. - xii, 128 pages : charts ; 23 cm.

Bibliography: pages [127]-128.

pt. 1. Conceptualizing emotional processess: -- The concept of a system -- Anxiety and reactivity -- Separateness and closeness -- Stability and change -- Clarity and compassion -- pt. 2. The congregation as an emotional system: -- Do not go gently into that glob of glue -- Being a prophet is nice work- if you can find a job -- What shall it profit a parish if it gets over the hump but falls into the abyss -- Remembering the future -- Believing and belonging.

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Pastoral psychology.
Family psychotherapy.
Church management.

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