Slaves of the most high God : a Biblical model of servant leadership in the slave Imagery of Luke-Acts /

Slaves of the most high God : a Biblical model of servant leadership in the slave Imagery of Luke-Acts /

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Author / Creator:	Cochrell, Tim, author.
Imprint:	Nashville, Tennessee : B & H Academic, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Christian leadership. Christian leadership -- Biblical teaching. Servant leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Servant leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christian leadership. Christian leadership -- Biblical teaching. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021384

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ISBN:	9781433646515 143364651X
Notes:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 1, 2018).
Summary:	Servant leadership has been broadly and enthusiastically embraced by Christians as a model of leadership marked by humility and modeled by Jesus. But behind that attractive veneer is an approach to leadership that is problematic theologically and anemic biblically with humanistic goals and assumptions that are derived more from secular theory than biblical research. Careful examination of the servant metaphor in Scripture reveals that a leader is not primarily called to be a servant after all, but rather a slave who is obedient and ultimately accountable to God as his or her Master. This provocative picture conveys a much richer and more demanding model of leadership than servanthood when understood within its cultural context. Slaves of the Most High God provides a rigorous exegetical, historical, and theological analysis of the slave metaphor in Luke-Acts. The pattern of Christ's slave leadership in Luke and the practice of slave leadership in the early church in Acts outline a paradigm of a leader who is in authority and under authority, redeemed by God to serve his people. The author proposes a countercultural model of slave leadership outlining seven practical principles drawn from the metaphor of slavery and shaped by personal pastoral experience.

Table of Contents:

1. Servant leadership : a flawed foundation
2. Slavery in pre-Christian Hebrew life and thought
3. Slavery in Greco-Roman life and thought
4. Good and faithful slave : slave imagery in the Gospel of Luke
5. Your holy slave Jesus : slave imagery in the Book of Acts
6. Slave leadership : a practical paradigm.