Practising chaordic beauty: On embracing strangers in one inner city faith community
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Practising chaordic beauty: On embracing strangers in one inner city faith community | |
| Creator | de Beer, Stephan | |
| Description | In this article I read one inner city faith community – the Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF) – through the lenses of literature that reflects on chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I explore whether an emphasis on the management of diversity, which is widespread in organisational and ecclesial practices and languages, should not be replaced with a spirituality of vulnerable embrace, as I discover it in this specific faith community. It is a spirituality that combines an invitation and radical embrace of diversity, and a dance with chaos, with a posture of vulnerability and a vision of justice. I bring the reflections of community members in TLF on difference and diversity in their organisation, in conversation with scholars contemplating chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I then wonder whether their emphasis on embrace instead of management does not open up the possibility of retrieving and affirming the hidden beauties and potentialities mediated by diversity, which is, I suggest, to practise ‘chaordic beauty’. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2016-11-18 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3523 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 72, No 1 (2016); 10 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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