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Seeker and servant : reflections on religious leadership / Anne T. Fraker, Larry C. Spears, editors ; foreword by Parker J. Palmer.

By: Greenleaf, Robert K
Contributor(s): Fraker, Anne T, 1946- | Spears, Larry C, 1955-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 359 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0787902292 (acidfree paper)Subject(s): Christian leadership | Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Greenleaf, Robert KDDC classification: 262/.1 LOC classification: BV652.1 | .G73 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-347) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. Nurturing the spirit : the challenges of religious leadership. Religious leaders as seekers and servants -- The servant as nurturer of the human spirit -- Spirituality as leadership -- The servant as gradualist -- Types of leaders -- An opportunity for a powerful new religious influence -- pt. 2. Leaders as inspirited persons. The collapse of civilization : a fantasy -- Reflections on spirit -- Seeing things whole -- Images of great spirits -- Pope John XXIII : nurturer of spirits -- Talking and listening -- Being who you are -- pt. 3. Seminaries, churches, and foundations : partners in spirit. Fable -- Religious leadership for these times -- Theology : a concern for the conditions under which the human spirit flowers -- The need for a theology of institutions -- The seminary as institution -- A new role for seminaries -- Critical thought and seminary leadership -- The trustee chairperson : nurturer of the human spirit -- Toward a gentle revolution -- Ministry to the strong -- The inner church as servant to its community -- A servant-led society --
pt. 4. Toward the caring community : reflections on seeking, giving, and receiving. The search and the seeker -- On being a seeker in the late twentieth century -- Lost knowledge -- A lifeline of ideas -- Our experience in India : what it suggests about giving -- Giving and receiving gifts of money -- Is it more blessed to give than to receive?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-347) and index.

pt. 1. Nurturing the spirit : the challenges of religious leadership. Religious leaders as seekers and servants -- The servant as nurturer of the human spirit -- Spirituality as leadership -- The servant as gradualist -- Types of leaders -- An opportunity for a powerful new religious influence -- pt. 2. Leaders as inspirited persons. The collapse of civilization : a fantasy -- Reflections on spirit -- Seeing things whole -- Images of great spirits -- Pope John XXIII : nurturer of spirits -- Talking and listening -- Being who you are -- pt. 3. Seminaries, churches, and foundations : partners in spirit. Fable -- Religious leadership for these times -- Theology : a concern for the conditions under which the human spirit flowers -- The need for a theology of institutions -- The seminary as institution -- A new role for seminaries -- Critical thought and seminary leadership -- The trustee chairperson : nurturer of the human spirit -- Toward a gentle revolution -- Ministry to the strong -- The inner church as servant to its community -- A servant-led society --

pt. 4. Toward the caring community : reflections on seeking, giving, and receiving. The search and the seeker -- On being a seeker in the late twentieth century -- Lost knowledge -- A lifeline of ideas -- Our experience in India : what it suggests about giving -- Giving and receiving gifts of money -- Is it more blessed to give than to receive?

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