Gifts That Differ: Lay Ministries Established and Unestablished

by David N. Power

Community, sacraments, pastoral care and teaching come to many of the faithful through the lay minister. Father Power reviews the documents and needs of this post conciliar time before focusing on the practice in the early Churches and in the light of the New Testament. He propounds for the Church, that body called the people of God in Christ, a theology of lay ministry based in "taking faith communities in earnest as bodies wherein the single members possess the Spirit and His gifts, and all are together responsible."

205 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1992