Pastor, Church & Law: Legal Issues for Pastors, Volume One
Overview
Understand the laws affecting pastors and why they are important for church boards and ministers to know. Richard Hammar uses court cases to help define and explain the legal distinction of ministerial status and its implications for pastors and church boards. This volume addresses clergy employment contracts, compensation, termination, legal privileges and conditions of ministers, and the legal authority of ministers on behalf of the church. Also, the more common theories of clergy legal liability are reviewed.
Top Highlights
“it is crucial that a church follow the procedures set forth in its governing instrument in discharging a minister” (Page 7)
“three phases of a minister’s relationship with a local church” (Page 7)
“Ministers are being sued today in increasing numbers for a wide variety of reasons” (Page 8)
- Title: Pastor, Church & Law: Legal Issues for Pastors, Volume One
- Author: Richard R. Hammar
- Publishers: Your Church, Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Ecclesiastical law › United States; Clergy › Legal status, laws, etc.--United States; Church and state › United States
- Resource ID: LLS:PSTRCHRCHLWV1
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-16T18:51:16Z