GURUS foR KENoSIS - Ethical Leadership

GURUS for KENOSIS
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An ethos of engagement and contemplation
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Motifs
Multitudes
Mission
Moments
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Many levels of discourse: humanity & divinity
• Contemplation as an avenue for grace – a
symbolic microcosm of the world one
inhabits and transforms
• Self reform through self knowledge, before
attending to the other
• Facing, resisting, deflecting, recognising with
discernment and being continually creative
• Space for divine power to be manifest
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1. Motifs
• Self emptying
• Emptying established hegemony
• Metamorphoses
• Challenge to forge a responsible
discipleship of human action in society
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Life as an act of worship
• Creating spaces of hope in the practice
of community
• Informed, challenged, humbled,
reflective, dynamic, disciplined
• Christian virtue is known by its fruits
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Disruptive leadership and followership
• A redemptive evocative process
• A provoking space
• If there is self-emptying, there is
power to receive
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2. Multitudes
• Global mobility
• Internationalisation
• Multiple voices
• World views
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Changing demography
• Migrants
• Refugees
• Indigenous peoples
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Multiple voices
• Crusades
• Islam
• Hindutva
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Gender
• Vulnerability
• Power
• Circumventing otherness
• Commonality in community
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3. Mission
• Who am I?
• How do I live out my life?
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Ministry in the light of mission
• Historical contexts within which
research and reflection take
place
• Education as a creative reading
of the life and times in which we
live - social, cultural and
ecclesiastical realities
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Creative Responsibility
• For the secular and sacred
• Discernment regarding what to
promote for peace and harmony…for
doing business by doing good
• Deeply engaged in a contextualised
process of interpretation
• An affirmation of hope
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The starry night sky
• Imagination, Intellect, Choice
• We are a microcosm of the macrocosm
that is always in flux
• A practice of world making and
meaning sharing
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4. Moments
• Consider the gift of power in
vulnerability
• Spaces to encourage…
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Imagine and practice Paradise
• Immersion into the larger whole
• Spiritual life lived in the world
• A process of seeing the world and
knowing God
• Preferential option for the poor
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Realizing our divine humanity
• A doing with others, rather than to/for
others
• Metaphors of atunment or turning in
• The giver and receiver bending towards
each other
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To be men and women of good will
• Each son or daughter of a given country has a
mission, a personal and social responsibility
• Building a future of freedom
• Courageous and responsible effort to
implement a culture of care, hope, healing
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In the wonder of relating with each other…
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment
(Rumi)
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour (Blake)
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Select Bibliography
Burenko, G. (2013). The starry night sky. World futures: the journal of
paradigm research. 69: 4-6, 231-247
Coakley, S. (2002). Powers and Submissions. Oxford: Blackwell
Douglas, C. (2013). The blue sapphire of the mind: notes for a
contemplative ecology. OUP.
Keuss, J. (2010). Freedom of the self: Kenosis, Cultural Identity &
mission at the crossroads. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publishers
Louinbos, J. (2011). Self Emptying and the Christian: Three essays on
Kenosis. Wipf & Stock
Pio, E. (2014). Work & Worship. Auckland, NZ: AUT
Power, D. (2005). Love without calculation: A reflection on divine
kenosis. Crossroads publishing company.
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