Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions

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Jones, L Gregory

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Byassee, Jason

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Hayden, Joshua

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2016-09-29T14:41:50Z

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2016-09-29T14:41:50Z

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2016

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Duke Divinity School

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Doctor of Ministry

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A theology of institutions is dependent upon an imagination sparked by the cross and shaped by the hope of the resurrection. Creative destruction is the institutional process of dying so that new life might flourish for the sake of others. Relying upon the institutional imagination of James K.A. Smith, the institutional particularity of David Fitch, and L. Gregory Jones’ traditioned innovation, creative destruction becomes a means of institutional discipleship. When an institution practices creative destruction, it learns to remember, imagine, and be present so that it might cultivate habits of faithful innovation. As institutions learn to take up their cross a clearer telos comes into view and collaboration across various organizations becomes possible for a greater good. Institutions that take up the practice of creative destruction can reimagine, reset, restart or resurrect themselves through a kind of dying so that new life can emerge. Creative destruction is an apologetic for an institutional way of being-in-the-world for the sake of all beings-in-the-world.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/12918

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Theology

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Religion

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Philosophy

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Creative Destruction

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Imagination

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Institutions

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Postmodernism

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Resurrection

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Theology

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Creative Destruction: Towards a Theology of Institutions

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Dissertation

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