Works
- Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition: A Social Case Study of the American Baptist Convention, Princeton University Press, Princeton (248 pages), 1959
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The American Baptist Convention case of authority and power
Ideas
Rational-pragmatic authority in a congregational polity. In a denomination whose formal authority flows up from autonomous congregations, professional executives came to hold much of the power on a rational-pragmatic basis. Caveat: One denomination in the 1950s.