The models of church government discussed are the Plural Elder-led Congregational model, the Single Elder-led Congregational model, the Democratic Congregational model, the Episcopal model, and the Presbyterian model.

This useful reference volume covers a wide range of common situations including: child protection, health and safety, employing staff, working with volunteers, appointing church officers, data protection, marriage and the law, and funerals ...

This is an accessible language edition of Richard Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, the major prose work of the English 16th century.

The authors of the essays in this volume probe these questions from a variety of angles. The conference intended to model close attention to and reflection on the theological import and value of church order and polity.

The volume includes a newly discovered letter; three newly attributed sermon fragments; and analysis by P. F. Forte of Hooker's distinctive preaching style.

The Baptist Way is an introduction to the principles that distinguish Baptists from other Christians.

"Archbishop John R. Quinn takes a look at the problem of excessive centralization in the Catholic Church - a problem acknowledged by theological giants such as Yves Congar and Joseph Ratzinger.

Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f r die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der renommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft.

In this volume, representatives of several North American Baptist seminaries and a Baptist university make the exegetical and theological case for a Baptist polity.

A primer by respected Washington, DC pastor and 9Marks ministry president Mark Dever on the doctrine of the church that explores the important issues of church life, other doctrines, worship, and polity.