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Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship de Chloe Lynch

Ecclesial Leadership as Friendship: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology

Autor Chloe Lynch
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2021
When it comes to talking about the activity of directing the church, the language of leadership and leaders is increasingly popular. Yet what is leadership – and how might theological narratives better resource the discourse and practice of leadership in ecclesial contexts? In identifying and critiquing managerialism as a dominant narrative of leadership in the Western church, this book calls for an alternative approach founded on the concept of friendship.




Engaging with the wider field of leadership studies, the book establishes an understanding of leadership activity and brings it into conversation with an incarnational ecclesiology. The result is a prophetic reimagining of ecclesial leadership in terms of a relational, kenotic praxis. This praxis of mutuality and love is framed here in the rich language of Christian friendship. The book also wrestles deeply with the embodiment of such a praxis, making explicit the power behaviours typical of friendship-leadership and offering constructive guidance for practitioners in the task of implementation within a complex and fractured world.




This book offers a new vision of the centrality of friendship to leadership of a healthy church community. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of practical theology, ecclesiology and leadership, as well as practitioners in church ministry.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367786830
ISBN-10: 0367786834
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  Part I: Expressing the Pain  1 Leadership and the Dominant Consciousness  2 Seeking an Alternative Consciousness  Part II: A Deep Remembering  3 Memories of Servanthood  4 Memories of Incarnation  5 Memories of the Church  Part III: Coding the Discourse  6 Incarnational Ecclesial Leadership and the Eschatological Inbreaking  7 ‘I Have Called You Friends...’  8 Friendship: Love’s Ideal  Part IV: Practising Hope  9 Incarnational Ecclesial Leadership and the Prophetic Imagination  10 Prophetic Hope in a Groaning Creation;  Appendix: Imagination’s Starting Points

Notă biografică

Chloe Lynch is Lecturer in Practical Theology at London School of Theology, UK. She has also spent a decade leading a church in West London and worked for a number of years as a City solicitor.

Recenzii

‘In this book Dr Lynch provides an original theological argument for taking the notion of friendship seriously in the context of ecclesial leadership. This is a most welcome study that could influence the theology and practice of leadership in the church significantly. Therefore, I highly recommend this book because it deserves to be read and discussed widely by church leaders, scholars and students.’ – Mark J. Cartledge, Professor of Practical Theology, Regent University School of Divinity, USA
‘One of the classic tasks of theology—that somehow has been lost in the blurring transitions of modernity—is to speak of the most central and intimate parts of human existence.　Chloe Lynch has offered us an important book that does just this, taking us deeply inside the experience of friendship, showing how God moves in the rhythms of friendship, and how we are most human when we are friends with God and one another.　This is an immensely helpful book that will challenge your conception of leadership, and beautifully call you into new theological visions.’　– Andrew Root, The Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of　Youth and Family Ministry, Luther Seminary, USA and author ofThe Pastor in a Secular Age(2019)
‘In a time of deep uncertainty and apparently perpetual change the issue of leadership becomes crucial. If the church does not faithfully nurture Christ-like leaders then the beautiful and crucial gift that is the Gospel will be inhibited in its transformative task. Of course God’s work will continue no matter what! The church exists for a purpose: to expand our imagination. When the apostle Paul talks about renewing our minds, at least part of what he pushes us to consider is the reconstruction of our imagination.　In this book Chloe offers us a way of thinking and understanding leadership that serves to re-form our imagination in ways that can enable us to re-think and reframe what it means to lead God’s people. That is not a small contribution! This is a fascinating and important book that has huge potential for facilitating creative thinking, and initiating thoughtful change and faithful living.’ – John Swinton, Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care, University of Aberdeen, UK

Descriere

Engaging with the wider field of leadership studies, the book establishes an understanding of leadership activity and brings it into conversation with an incarnational ecclesiology. The result is a prophetic reimagining of ecclesial leadership in terms of a relational, kenotic praxis.