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.