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Synodality and Servant Leadership

  Servant Leadership:  A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness In bookstores, Greenleaf's masterpiece can be found in the business management and/or the inspirational books collections. Servant Leadership promotes both organizational and personal development. Greenleaf maintains that service to others is the heart of personal and organizational leadership. As a social psychologist, I particularly value his understanding of the interdependence of organizations and persons. As he put it: "The organization exists for the person as much as the person exists for the organization". Synodality promotes both an organizational culture and a personal spirituality of walking together. Greenleaf's insights about servant leadership are very helpful in developing both organizational cultures of walking together and personal spiritualities of walking together.  Biography of Greenleaf on his Servant Leadership site During college Greenleaf was inspired by a sociol...

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Relationship of Spirituality to Theology

The Interdisciplinary Study of Christian Spirituality

My Review of  The Study of Christianity Spirituality:  Contours and Dynamics of a Discipline by  Sandra M Schneiders Christian Spirituality Bulletin: Journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, Volume 6, #1, Spring 1998, p. 1,3-12. This article is a common starting point for discussing spirituality?  What is it? How do we study it?  What is its relationship to various disciplines?  Why is it important?     The Subject Matter of the Discipline of Spirituality Schneiders asserts that most scholars would agree that:  “what we study, is lived Christian faith.”  However, she offers a more specific definition. “Spirituality … is the experience of the conscious involvement in the project of life-integration through self-transcendence toward the ultimate value one perceives.”  She would apply this definition to all forms of spirituality including those that are not Christian or even theistic.  Christianity suppl...

Transdisciplinary Christian Spirituality

Synodality: The Trustee as Servant