Saving Souls, Serving Society : Understanding the Faith Factor in Church-Base...

by Ronald J. Sider, Heidi Rolland Unruh

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Saving Souls, Serving Society : Understanding the Faith Factor in Church-Based Social Ministry, Hardcover by Unruh, Heidi Rolland; Sider, Ronald J., ISBN 0195161556, ISBN-13 9780195161557, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Recent years have seen unprecedented attention to faith-based institutions as agents of social change, spurred in part by cuts in public funding for social services and accompanied by controversy about the separation of church and state. The debate over faith-based initiatives has highlighted a small but growing segment of churches committed to both saving souls and serving society. What distinguishes faith-based from secular activism? How do religious organizations express their religious identity in the context of social services? How do faith-based service providers interpret the connection between spiritual methodologies and socioeconomic outcomes? How does faith motivate and give meaning to social ministry? Drawing on case studies of fifteen Philadelphia-area Protestant churches with active outreach, Saving Souls, Serving Society seeks to answer these and other pressing questions surrounding the religious dynamics of social ministry. While church-based programs often look similar to secular ones in terms of goods or services rendered, they may show significant differences in terms of motivations, desired outcomes, and interpretations of meaning. Church-based programs also differ from one another in terms of how they relate evangelism to thei

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2005
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780195161557
• Condition: Good

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