Creation Stories: What Were the First Resource Churches?

Abstract This article builds on the first in trilogy, ‘What’s a Name? An Examination of Current Definitions Resource Churches’, by evaluating narratives current literature about origins resource churches. These will be assessed according to criteria, highlighted through perspective Foucault and Arendt origin stories, believability their depiction historical events, application manifest properties contemporary churches, teleological purpose, attentiveness conflict. The origin, or creation, stories examined particularly consider formation development churches relation century Anglo-Saxon England, as well following start parish system.