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Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4039-8091-5

ISBN: 978-1-137-28778-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 21, 2015

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Chapter 1The Quest for Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church

Tribble, Jeffery L.

Pages: 1 –21

[On February 8, 2003, talk show host Tavis Smiley convened a conference that was called “The Black Church: Relevant, Repressive, or Reborn?”1 Some of the most trusted and best-known spiritual leaders of the black church2 serving in the church and academy were invited to participate.3 I learned...
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Chapter 2“God Did It”: A Tale of a Male Pastor in a Transforming Traditional Church

Tribble, Jeffery L.

Pages: 23 –54

[High and lifted up above street corner sights and sounds at the gateway to the black middle-class community of Middleton1 are carefully spaced posters on all sides of a yet undeveloped 275 foot by 245 foot corner property. The words proclaimed by these posters, “God Did It,” are obviously...
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Chapter 3“God of a Second Chance”: A Tale of a Female Pastor in a Transforming Merged Mission Church

Tribble, Jeffery L.

Pages: 55 –85

[Heralding the public and private sector partnerships that drive the forces of gentrification are city government signs: “Neighborhoods Alive Redevelopment Area.” These signs and other visible changes mark the “good news” of neighborhood revitalization. Indeed, a drive through this community...
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Chapter 4Emerging Strategies of Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church

Tribble, Jeffery L.

Pages: 87 –117

[The premise of this work is that a new vision of pastoral leadership in the black church is needed at the outset of the twenty-first century. My vision is that “transformative pastoral leadership” is needed to transform individuals, churches, and society. This new vision is needed because many...
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Chapter 5Independent Black Methodist Systems as Contexts of Transformative Pastoral Leadership

Tribble, Jeffery L.

Pages: 119 –142

[At the outset of this work the thesis was stated: transformative pastoral leaders are needed to cooperate with God’s work of transforming the Church, the people of God, in light of the perspectives of the past and the challenges of the present and the future. This is essential if the black...

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