DOI: 10.1177/07398913261504018 ISSN: 0739-8913

Communication Paradigm Shift in Churches: Understanding Church Organization as Constituted in Communication

Lisa Newbore

While churches have long relied on communication to articulate mission and sustain community, they often lack a guiding paradigm for understanding how communication itself constitutes the church as an organization. This article introduces the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) theory to ecclesial contexts, offering a new theoretical lens for understanding how communicative processes constitute and sustain organizational life within the church.

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