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Christian leadership

Here are entered works on leadership within Christian institutions and organizations. Works on Christian views of leadership are entered under Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

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• Leading From The Heart: Lifetime Reflections on Spiritual Development, by Robert Boyd Munger (HTML at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Holy Zeal, by Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Shanūdah III, trans. by Glynis Younan (illustrated HTML at tasbeha.org)
• What the Church Means to Me: A Frank Confession and a Friendly Estimate by an Insider (Boston et al.: The Pilgrim Press, c1911), by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Preparation for Ordination: A Paper Read at Oxford, March 3, 1905, by B. W. Randolph (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)

• General Directory for Catechesis (1997), by Catholic Church (HTML at the Vatican)
• General Catechetical Directory (1971), by Catholic Church (HTML at the Vatican)

• Sancti Gregorii Magni Papae, Liber Pastoralis Curae (in Latin; Rouen: Apud I. Crevel, 1618), by Pope Gregory I, contrib. by François de Harlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Homily of Saint Gregory the Great on the Pastoral Office (second thousand; Dublin and Waterford: M. H. Gill and Son; New York: Benziger Bros., 1908), by Pope Gregory I, trans. by Patrick Boyle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medico-Moral Problems (third printing; St. Louis: Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada, 1961), by Gerald Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Parish Clerk (c1907), by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Female Teaching, by Catherine Mumford Booth (HTML at Indiana)

• Samantha Among the Brethren (1890), by Marietta Holley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Deaconess Manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), by Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dynamic Classroom, by Billie Davis (HTML at archive.org)

• Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Riv-Ellen Prell (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of the Newark Baptist City Mission From Its Origin in 1851 to Its Seventeenth Anniversary in 1868, by Edgar Mortimer Levy (page images at MOA)

• Deaconesses: Biblical, Early Church, European, American; With the Story of the Chicago Training School, for City, Home and Foreign Missions, and the Chicago Deaconess Home (second edition; Chicago: Message Pub. Co., c1889), by Lucy Rider Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, for the Practical Training of Deaconesses, Under the Direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner: Embracing the Support and Care of a Hospital, Infant and Industrial Schools, and a Female Penitentiary (published anonymously, but attributed to Nightingale in some sources; London: Printed by the inmates of the London Ragged Colonial Training School, 1851), contrib. by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Christian Pastorate, by Daniel P. Kidder (page images at MOA)
• King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (2 volumes, EETS original series 45 and 50; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner and Co., 1871-1872), by Pope Gregory I, ed. by Henry Sweet, trans. by King of England Alfred (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• The Office and Duty of a Christian Pastor, by Stephen H. Tyng (page images at MOA)
• That the Ministry Be Not Blamed: Lectures to Divinity Students in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow in the Spring of 1921 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1921), by John A. Hutton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Outward Bound: Caravaning as the Style of the Church, by Vernard Eller (HTML at hccentral.com)

• Gildas Salvianus, the First Part, i.e. The Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, Especially the Private Instruction and Catechizing, With an Open Confession of Our Too Open Sins (London: Printed by R. White for N. Simmons, 1656), by Richard Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Priest to the Temple: or, The Country Parson, His Character and Rule of Holy Life (1652), by George Herbert (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• Gildas Salvianus, the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work, Especially the Private Instruction and Catechising, With an Open Confession of Our Too Open Sins (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1860), by Richard Baxter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reformed Pastor, by Richard Baxter (HTML at reformedreader.org)

• Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Dawn Coleman (PDF at Ohio State)

• Trinity Seminary Review (with other TLS publications) (partial serial archives)

• The Education of Colored Preachers: A Sermon Preached at the Anniversaries in Chicago, May 21, 1871, at the Request of the Board of the American Baptist Home Mission Society (Charleston, SC: Printed at the office of the "Working Christian", ca. 1871), by E. T. Winkler (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mental Health Ministry of the Local Church (1972), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Counseling for Liberation, by Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Competent to Minister: The Biblical Care of Souls (Santa Barbara, CA: EastGate Publishers, c1996), by Martin Bobgan and Deidre Bobgan (PDF at pamweb.org)
• Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment (1975), by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Counseling for Liberation, by Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• The Spirit of Counsel: Spiritual Perspectives in the Counselling Process, by Martin Israel (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal (expanded web edition), ed. by Steven C. Kettler (HTML at lettermen2.com)

• The Sermon Under Attack (Exeter, UK: Paternoster Press, c1983), by K. Runia (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• The Ecology of Faith, by Joseph Sittler (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Papers on Preaching and Public Speaking: By a Wykehamist (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), by George J. Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries, With Outlines of Their Sermons, and Specimens of Their Style (London: Rivingtons, 1865), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ueber das Extemporiren der Predigten (in German; Hannover: Gebrudern Hahn, 1817), by Johann Heinrich Fritsch
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Yale Lectures on Preaching (New York, J. B. Ford and Co., 1872), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Christian Doctrine, by Saint Augustine of Hippo (multiple formats at CCEL)

• The Tent Mission (4-page pamphlet bound with other short articles and tracts; ca. 1900), by Anna B. Taft (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Place and Work of Women in the Church (1877), by John Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women, Creation, and the Fall, by Mary A. Kassian (PDF at Wayback Machine)

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