Thinking outside the square : church in middle earth / edited by Ree Boddé & Hugh Kempster.

Includes bibliographical references.

A regular hobbit / Sue Halapua -- Believing by faith and the concept of God / John Bishop -- Being church and belonging : how do twenty-first century New Zealanders join the church? / John Bluck -- Imagine that : between sacred and secular / Ree Boddé and Hugh Kempster -- Church Life Survey New Zealand / Norman Brookes -- Church : viagra for the soul / David Clark -- Brunch @ 1/2 Twelve / May Croft -- The gospel enterprise and the economy / Alex Czerwonka -- The preferential option for the poor / Terry Dibble -- Compromise with context : freedom with dialogue / John Fairbrother -- The church as bystander / Bruce Hucker -- Wrestling with the angel : imagination and priestly being / Trevor James -- An immoveable object meets an unstoppable idea : theology and structure in the Anglican Church / Ian Lawton -- Within and beyond the church / Caroline Leys -- Three types of church / Peter Lineham -- The church in Middle Earth : extra-parochial ministry communities / David Moxon -- Does it have to be a square? : challenging the assumptions of mainstream church, a view from the edge / Rosemary Neave -- The question of suffering : old challenges in a new century / Elizabeth Niven -- Community and belonging / Antony Nobbs -- Reality bites : what use is the priest in contemporary New Zealand society? / Sande Ramage -- Beyond morphological fundamentalism / Richard Randerson -- On being Te Ahorangi : an 'underside' experience of the constitution of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa / Jenny Plane Te Paa -- Sex and religion in the city : holding together the roles of religious leadership and sexuality counsellor / Chris Tweddell -- The dove / Sue Halapua.