Interactional leadership: Jesus’ model of leadership – A case of Mark 7:25–29

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Interactional leadership: Jesus’ model of leadership – A case of Mark 7:25–29
 
Creator Addo Jnr, John K. Dube, Zorodzai
 
Subject — social interactionism; leadership; Gospel of Mark; Jesus; Ghana
Description Inspired by Goffman and Mead Social Interactionism theory and Ghanaian traditional leadership model, this article interprets Mark 7:24–30 as text that re-imagines alternative leadership practice. The study suggest that social interactionism theory tenants of ritual making, people processing, characterisation, frame making and dramaturgy provide a alternative heuristic tools to understand Jesus’ view of leadership. Seemingly and for Jesus, leadership is a product of social interaction derived from the manner one interacts with various people. This study proposes that the Ghanaian Akan traditional notion of leadership based on social interaction provides analogical model that complements social interactionism theory in interpreting Jesus’ leadership practices. Therefore, the study explains social interactionism theory and then illustrated it through Akan leadership model analogue. The story of the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7:24–30 gives the social interaction, people processing, characterisation, frame making and dramaturgy that informs Jesus’ leadership model to be modelled by the Church.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor University of Pretoria
Date 2020-05-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v76i4.5554
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 76, No 4 (2020); 7 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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