Lederskab og spiritualitet i en missional kirke

The thesis of this article is that leadership and spirituality in a biblical perspective are intertwined and closely connected. In the life of the leader this has to do with calling, discipleship, a life of faith, and a discovery of one’s spiritual gifts. The same pattern applies to the congregation: The growth and spiritual maturity of the congregation depend on an understanding of leadership where the center is equpping the saints for service, to build up the body of Christ. The thesis is thus that the precondition for developing a missional congregation is to develop the spirituality of the congregation. This calls for a missional leadership which is able both to develop missional congregations and able to bind together missional with a living congregational spirituality.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198865414.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Joshua S. Easterling

Keyword(s):

Religious Life ◽

Spiritual Gifts ◽

The Body ◽

Alternative Conceptions ◽

The Other ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

Late Medieval ◽

The One

The introduction brings together the various intellectual formations which structure the book and which constellate within the anchoritic and para-anchoritic writings explored throughout each chapter. It discusses alongside Paul’s images of the body of Christ and the spiritual charismata (1 Cor. 12) the emphases within late medieval orthodox culture on the authority of reformed and (sexually) purified church elites. Those priorities enlisted the apostolic conception of Christ’s body and marginalized alternative conceptions of spiritual grace, particularly those implied within the Pauline model of the charisms. The cultural and textual negotiations that this rivalry elicited anchor the book’s central contentions regarding the angelic image and the spiritual gifts, which powerfully structured late medieval religious life. These images also operated within anchoritic texts as an immensely flexible shorthand for the intersecting but also rival ideals of corporate and hierarchical authority, on the one hand, and personal inspiration and charisma, on the other.

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Reviews

European Journal of Theology ◽

10.5117/ejt2020.2.027.mcla ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 301-304

Keyword(s):

Spiritual Gifts ◽

The Body ◽

Christian Theology ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

1 Corinthians ◽

Content Type ◽

Current Thinking ◽

P Content ◽

Starting Point ◽

Disability Theology

Summary <p content-type="flush left">Wondrously Wounded sets out to reconfigure our theological idea of what disability is. It moves away, not only from charity or medical models, but also from some current thinking in disability theology (that those labelled disabled reveal humanity’s true vulnerability) to a starting point of all life being a gift, so all capable of mediating God’s goodness. Brock grounds his argument in patristic ideas of a radical Christian human solidarity, and a convincing exegesis of 1 Corinthians 12, the body of Christ and spiritual gifts. The whole is brought to life by an account of Brock’s son, Adam, who is labelled disabled, but who under this analysis is perhaps the healthiest of us all. This is an important next step in the development of a convincing Christian theology of disability.

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Spiritual gifts for biblical church growth

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v50i1.2090 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian A. DeVries

Keyword(s):

Church Growth ◽

Holy Spirit ◽

Spiritual Gifts ◽

Church Leaders ◽

The Body ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Church

This article examines the use of spiritual gifts for church growth, particularly in relation to the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. The article begins with a definition of spiritual gifts and by highlighting their purpose for growing the church. This is followed by two practical considerations: How should Christian believers use spiritual gifts for church growth, and how should church leaders motivate gift use for this purpose? Since the Holy Spirit works though believers to build up the body of Christ, advocates of biblical church growth should seek to employ his means to motivate spiritual giftedness in the church.

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Understanding the Effects of Diversity in Missionary Teams: Insights from the Social Sciences

10.31219/osf.io/frdkz ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Robert Dunaetz

Keyword(s):

Team Performance ◽

Work Teams ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Spiritual Gifts ◽

The Body ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

Tower Of Babel ◽

The Social ◽

Similarity Attraction ◽

Diversity Studies

This study presents an overview of the results of empirical studies concerning diversity in work teams. Although these studies have most often been carried out in secular contexts, they support perspectives of human nature that are consistent with the biblical themes found associated with the Tower of Babel (the Similarity/Attraction Perspective) and Paul's metaphor of the Body of Christ and spiritual gifts (the Information/Decision Making Perspective). Key concepts are explained, including the measurement of diversity and team performance, task and relationship diversity, faultlines, cultural versus non-cultural diversity, and status. When the results of the various diversity studies are combined, it appears that diversity in itself has little effect on team performance. However, under certain conditions, diversity can be very detrimental or very beneficial to team performance. These various conditions are examined in light of situations that missionary teams are likely to encounter.

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Double Affirmation: Medievalism as Christian Apologetic in the Arthurian Poetry of Charles Williams

Journal of Inklings Studies ◽

10.3366/ink.2013.3.2.5 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 59-96

Author(s):

Sørina Higgins

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

The Body ◽

European History ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

Female Figure ◽

Century Poetry ◽

Charles Williams ◽

Embodied Theology

In his unfinished cycle of Arthurian poems, Charles Williams developed a totalizing mythology in which he fictionalized the Medieval. First, he employed chronological conflation, juxtaposing events and cultural references from a millennium of European history and aligning each with his doctrinal system. Second, following the Biblical metaphor of the body of Christ, Blake’s symbolism, and Rosicrucian sacramentalism, he embodied theology in the Medieval landscape via a superimposed female figure. Finally, Williams worked to show the validity of two Scholastic approaches to spirituality: the kataphatic and apophatic paths. His attempts to balance via negativa and via positiva led Williams to practical misapplication—but also to creation of a landmark work of twentieth century poetry. . . . the two great vocations, the Rejection of all images before the unimaged, the Affirmation of all images before the all-imaged, the Rejection affirming, the Affirmation rejecting. . . —from ‘The Departure of Dindrane’ —O Blessed, pardon affirmation!— —O Blessed, pardon negation!— —from ‘The Prayers of the Pope’

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