A Quality Standard to Articulate the Healthy Development of the Christian Church of the 21st Century

Abstract

The ideas of “quality” proposed by Deming and Juran, were used effectively in the reconstruction of Japan after the end of WW II. In axiological terms, quality principles involve the systemic organization of work, or ES. Principles of quality management can be—and often are—applied to production processes without any element of intrinsic valuation. These principles have now been used by companies of all kinds, in all nations, including the arms companies that produce nuclear missiles of the highest quality with the most advanced technology that are capable of destroying our planet in a matter of minutes. The current work adds an intrinsic element to these ideas of quality, and it applies them to the Christian church in the light of formal axiology. The author proposes a model of excellence—a set of Quality Standards—for articulating the healthy development of the Christian church in the 21st Century. This model posits Jesus as a much needed ethical and spiritual model of human development, in response to the needs of our times, before a nuclear war wipes out human life.