Yoke of Obedience: The Meaning of Ordination in Methodism

by Dennis M Campbell

Overview

Yoke of Obedience

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780687466603
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	United Methodist Studies
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	279,351
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dennis M. Campbell is former Dean of the Divinity School and former Professor of Theology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Currently he is Headmaster of Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry Forest Virginia.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
Chapter I	The Nature of the Question	9
	The Urgency of the Topic for the Whole Church	10
	To Inform and to Renew	16
Chapter II	The Ministry of the Whole People of God	19
	Ministry in the New Testament Church	20
	Ministry in the Early Church	28
	Ministry in Christian History	34
	Wholeness in Ministry	43
Chapter III	The Development of Ministry in the Wesleyan Tradition	47
	John Wesley's Understanding of Ministry	48
	Wesley's Ordinations for America	59
	Provision of The Sunday Service Ordinal	64
	Continuation of the Apostolic Ministry	66
Chapter IV	Ordination in American Methodism	69
	The 1784 Christmas Conference	69
	Ministry in American Episcopal Methodism	72
	Diversity and Unity in the Tradition	81
	The Continuity of Ordination	82
Chapter V	The Meaning of Ordination	86
	The Vocation to Ordained Ministry	86
	The Role of the Church	88
	Qualifications for Ordination	90
	The Nature of Ordination	94
Chapter VI	The Representative Character of Ordained Ministers	98
	Servant Leadership	100
	Teaching Authority	104
	Authenticity and the Moral Life	106
	Ministry and the Yoke of Obedience	107
	Notes	109
	Bibliography	118