Abstract
Scholarship regarding servant leadership has recently focused on the organizational context, as well as the personal development of the leader. This chapter continues with this emphasis relating servant leadership to the leadership moment, a theory that takes seriously the moment in time that the leadership experience takes place in as well as the different pieces—purpose, context, follower and leader. Each of these pieces is constitutive to the overall leadership experience and is deserving of further deliberation. As a further contribution to servant leadership, theological reflection of each of the different pieces of the leadership moment from the Christian tradition is also included. This reflection supports the leader in his/her evaluation of his/her work experience. This theological reflection supports the personal development of the leader, detailing the Christian horizon of significance as a plausible horizon that the leader can relate to.
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For example, see Miles. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Leadership-Sucks-Servant-Fundamentals-ebook/dp/B009QYLSCK.
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This worldview is based on the reformed Christian tradition. For more information about this worldview, see Albert M. Wolters, Creation Regained: Biblical Basis for a Reformational Worldview (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1985).
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This understanding of coheirs presupposes a specific understanding of creation. Such an understanding of creation does not assume a “closed system of creation” where everything has already been created, rather, creation is understood as “a continual event.” It continues to take place in the concrete conditions of time and space. For more information, see van Knippenberg, Towards Religious Identity, 124.
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Lin, P. (2019). Christianity and Servant Leadership. In: Bouckaert, L., van den Heuvel, S. (eds) Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29936-1_7
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