Avery William O (15 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In If This Is the Way the World Works William O. Avery and Beth Ann Gaede ask two primary questions: First, what principles from science are so broadly accepted that scientists themselves are willing to say, This is the way the world works? Second, how do congregations and their leaders behave when they operate in concert with these seemingly universal principles? Avery and Gaede explore five principles form the philosophy of science that suggest an alternative way to view congregational mission and leadership: openness to new information, complexity, diversity, interrelatedness, and process. Their premise is that when faith communities align themselves with the way the world--God's world--works, they more faithfully carry out their vocations as witnesses to God's reconciling work and as servants to one another. By following these basic scientific principles, Avery and Gaede argue, we arrive at a different view of leadership in the church. If this is truly the way the world works, leaders will find strength through relationships, hope in diversity, and above all trust in the love of God.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In If This Is the Way the World Works William O. Avery and Beth Ann Gaede ask two primary questions: First, what principles from science are so broadly accepted that scientists themselves are willing to say, This is the way the world works? Second, how do congregations and their leaders behave when they operate in concert with these seemingly universal principles? Avery and Gaede explore five principles form the philosophy of science that suggest an alternative way to view congregational mission and leadership: openness to new information, complexity, diversity, interrelatedness, and process. Their premise is that when faith communities align themselves with the way the world--God's world--works, they more faithfully carry out their vocations as witnesses to God's reconciling work and as servants to one another. By following these basic scientific principles, Avery and Gaede argue, we arrive at a different view of leadership in the church. If this is truly the way the world works, leaders will find strength through relationships, hope in diversity, and above all trust in the love of God.…

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Small quarto. 116pp. Illustrated paper wrappers. One tipped-in illustration loose and laid in, creases on wraps and spine, tears at spine ends, very good. A literary magazine feature prose, poetry and artwork from Stephan, Boris Paternak, Kenneth Rexroth, W.J. Parrish-Martin, Raymond Queneau, William Jay Smith, H. Richard Chew, Mary Barnard, Weldon Kees, K.O. Hanson, Doris B. Branch, Thomas Cole, John Nerber, Mario Carreño, Paul Goodman, Harvey Curtis Webster, Philip Murray, Herbert Cahoon, Paul Valley and art from by Leon Kelly, Photographs by Alexander Hammid, Kay Sage, Theodoros Stamos, William Baziotes, René Magritte, Milton Avery, Hokusi, Morris Graves, Max Ernst, and Adolph Gottlieb. …