A multicultural church? :

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" A multicultural church? : "
Tahaafe-Williams, Katalina

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	895484
Doc. No	:	TLets809728
Main Entry	:	University of Birmingham
Title & Author	:	A multicultural church? :\ Tahaafe-Williams, Katalina
College	:	University of Birmingham
Date	:	2013
Degree	:	Thesis (Ph.D.)
student score	:	2013
Abstract	:	This work explores the idea of a multicultural church and the possibility of its existence through the formation and development of multicultural ministry as a programmatic tool. The ideas and vision of a multicultural church and the development of multicultural ministry are presented through an auto-ethnographic lens using the participant-observer methodology. The study draws on the multicultural experiences of three mainline Christian Churches in different western contexts, with a particular focus on the United Reformed Church in the UK, to highlight the possibilities and the challenges of multicultural church and ministry. Looking at New Testament multicultural ecclesial models as proto-types for what Christ’s Church in the twenty first century ought to look like, the study found the struggle to live with difference and diversity to be just as much of a blockage today, if not more pronounced. An underlying assumption throughout the work is that the multicultural ecclesial model is a core and central characteristic of Christ’s church.
Subject	:	BL Religion
Added Entry	:	University of Birmingham