Understanding Christian Leadership offers an examination of a distinctly Christian understanding of leadership offering a critical appraisal of insights from secular theories of leadership, exploring biblical and other theological insights into the nature and practice of leadership.

Ian Parkinson

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Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction: Not Another Book on Leadership?!

Part 1. Understanding Leadership

1. Desiring Leadership: Why Leadership Matters

2. Defining Leadership

3. Leadership in the Christian Tradition I: Leadership in the Old Testament

4. Leadership in the Christian Tradition II: Leadership in the New Testament

5. Distrusting Leadership: Critical Reflection on the Practice of Leadership

Part 2. The Work of Leadership

6. Leadership and Organizational Culture

7. Animating the Body: Growing and Developing Others

8. Fostering Collaboration

9. Discerning Direction: Leadership and Vision

10. The Spirituality of Christian Leadership

References and Further Reading

\["For those undertaking Christian leadership training","This book argues for a collaborative approach to leadership","Includes a foreword by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury"\]

Essential reading for anyone undertaking an undergraduate or postgraduate study in leadership

Peter Bold

I've just finished reading this book - cover to cover . As a vicar I wish I'd had it 20 years ago. After setting solid foundations, the second half of the book is full of practical wisdom. Ian's states that all too often the church has used Old Testament models of leadership, as if Pentecost hadn't happened. The result has been passive and unempowered followers. I'd never thought about it like that before. So relevant to me, and to so much of the church right now. The chapters then on animating the body, fostering collaboration and discerning direction were superb, and I will be making use of them.

I wish I'd read it 20 years ago

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