Creativity Unleashed: Building a Practical Theology for Christian Leadership in a World in Flux
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David M. Csinos
Abstract
Discourse surrounding Christian leadership is often influenced by colonialistic assumptions and theology that centralizes the role of the leader as change agent. In this article, the author uses Gordon Kaufman’s conception of God as serendipitous creativity as a resource for moving toward a practical theology of leadership that acknowledges colonialistic undercurrents within leadership discourse and responds to the shifting place of the church in our world. Naming God as uncontrollable, unplanned creativity engenders practices of Christian leadership that focus on the power of the community, discern divine creativity in one’s midst, and embrace the mysterious emergence of new realities.
Zusammenfassung
Der christliche Diskurs über Leitungsaufgaben wird von kolonialistischen Auffassungen beeinflusst, laut denen Veränderungen maßgeblich von der Leitungsperson ausgehen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz greift die Gotteslehre des mennonitischen Theologen Gordon Kaufman auf und entwickelt aus deren Motiv einer uneingehegten Kreativität eine Vision gemeinschaftlicher christlicher Leitungspraxis.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
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- Children’s Agency in Worship
- Homo pandemicus – homo solitarius
- When a Crisis Empties Mosques: A Case Study of Muslim Responses to the Pandemic’s Challenges in Regards to Spiritual Care and Communal Rituals in Austria and Germany
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- White Supremacy as Counter-Telos: Pastoral Formation in the White Habitus
- Conspiracy Theories in Congregations: A Pastoral Response
- Creativity Unleashed: Building a Practical Theology for Christian Leadership in a World in Flux
- Resonance in a Theopoetics of Practice in Practical Theology
- Research Report
- Climate Violence and Earth Justice: A Research Report on Practical Theology’s Contributions
- Book Reviews
- HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Interdependence: A Postcolonial Feminist Practical Theology (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018), 171 pp., ISBN 9781532617249, $9.92
- Miller-McLemore, B.J (ed)., The Wiley Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), 424pp., ISBN: 978-1-119-40849-9, $38.95
- Jin Young Choi and Joerg Rieger, eds., Faith, Class, & Labor: Intersectional Approaches in a Global Context (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020), 271 pp., ISBN 9781725257160, $35.00 / £26.00
