God-image of Servant King as powerful but vulnerable and serving: Towards transforming African church leadership at an intersection of African kingship and biblical kingship to servant leadership

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title God-image of Servant King as powerful but vulnerable and serving: Towards transforming African church leadership at an intersection of African kingship and biblical kingship to servant leadership
 
Creator Magezi, Vhumani
 
Subject Theology Church Leadership; Servant Leadership; African Church Leadership; Church Transformational leadership
Description Christianity is mediated through culture and people’s cultural practices. One such cultural practice is African kingship. African kingship conveys on the ruler sovereignty, power, authority and supremacy over people under one’s jurisdiction. Intricately linked to respect for elders and those in power, African church leaders are at an intersection of the African kingship leadership style and the biblical kingship leadership style. Consciously or unconsciously, church leaders tend to embrace the African kingship approach to leadership and to a lesser extent biblical servant leadership. In such a situation, what God-image of biblical leadership could be discerned for constructive church leadership? In response, the God-image of Servant King as all powerful God, although vulnerable and serving, provides the framework for a transformative approach to church leadership in Africa.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor No
Date 2015-11-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literature
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v71i2.2907
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 71, No 2 (2015); 9 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage African Church Leadership Africa —
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