Ice Cube Is Melting What is Really At Risk in United Methodism?

Schaller, Lyle E.

ISBN 10: 0687338816 / ISBN 13: 9780687338818

Published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 2004

About this Item

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages; White trade size paperback lightly rubbed at edges. Front cover pops open slightly. Previous owner notes at half title page with underlined text throughout.

Seller Inventory # 1712

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ice Cube Is Melting What is Really At Risk in United Methodism?
• Publisher: Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0687338816
• ISBN 13: 9780687338818
• Binding: Trade Size Paperback
• Edition: 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

About this title

Synopsis

Comparing current membership figures in The United Methodist Church with those from forty years ago, it would be easy to conclude that the United Methodist "ice cube" is melting. Any number of factors might account for this trend, but almost every observer would agree that what Lyle Schaller calls the "contagious disease of intradenominational quarreling" has played a large role. Schaller says that the day has arrived to focus on the cure to this disease. Recognizing that the most difficult step in this process will be to gain agreement on what are the non-negotiable issues in the disagreements that divide United Methodists, Schaller has recruited a number of individuals from around the denomination to comment on what is really "at risk" in The United Methodist Church. Only by undertaking the hard work of gaining agreement on what the real issues are that divide United Methodists, he says, will it be possible to hope for a way forward.