{"product_id":"the-church-trap-arthur-herzog-iii-9780595276110","title":"The Church Trap","description":"\u003cp\u003eChurches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel the pressure to modernize, to \"get where the action is.\" This book is a provocative and zesty analysis of the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDishonest to God?\u003c\/i\u003e The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing fat figures and solid annual growth. If religion were sold like stocks you would have the \"high fliers\" like the booming Southern Baptists and the Roman Catholics, the \"blue chip\" denominations-Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians-and then those with small growth potential like the Jews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \"sick\" clergy.\u003c\/i\u003e Most clergymen of the various faiths, needless to say, are not alcoholic or homosexual. On the other hand enough clergymen have these problems to cause concern, and beyond the slippery labels of neuroses there are enough inward tortured people in the clergy to make church authorities wonder what in heaven is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe future.\u003c\/i\u003e One of the basic models for churchly change is ecumenism, but although ecumenism may look good on the drawing board, it has some very formidable hurdles before it . There is no sign in the heavens that the organized religion in America will be granted a resurrection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur III Herzog\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595276113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595276110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.56h x 2.98w x 0.55d","brand":"Arthur III Herzog","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946811392255,"sku":"9780595276110","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c0e4281b-f4b3-4133-91cc-011fc02339ad.jpg?v=1681515275","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-church-trap-arthur-herzog-iii-9780595276110","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}