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TOWARD A NEW FOCUS FOR CHURCHES' DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS?
Author(s) -
Dickinson Richard
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
the ecumenical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1758-6623
pISSN - 0013-0796
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-6623.1970.tb01081.x
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , power (physics) , institution , development (topology) , sociology , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , optics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
“The Church must recognize that she is growing powerless to orient or produce development. The less efficient she is as a power, the more effective she can be as a celebrant of the mystery… The Church will have to renounce progressively the ‘power to do good’ she now has, and see this power pass into the hands of a new type of institution.”