Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership: Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction: Spiritual Leadership: A Fresh Look at an Ancient Human Issue; Scott T. Allison, Craig T. Kocher, and George R. Goethals

I. HISTORICAL EXEMPLARS OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

1. Women's Leadership in the Early Church: Possibilities and Pushbacks; L. Stephanie Cobb

2. Clerical Leadership in Late Antiquity: Augustine on Bishops' Polemical and Pastoral Burdens; Peter Iver Kaufman

3. The Spiritual Leadership of Madame Guyon and Madame de Maintenon Under Louis XIV; Sydney Watts

4. The President as Spiritual Leader: Pardons, Punishment, Forgiveness, Mercy and Justice; Henry L. Chambers, Jr.

5. Reconciliation and its Failures: Reconstruction to Jim Crow; George R. Goethals

6. The Pursuit of Wonder; David D. Burhans

II. CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

7. Leading Through Reading in Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy by Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett; Elisabeth Rose Gruner

8. Engaged Spirituality and Egalitarianism in U.S. Social Welfare Policy; Jennifer L. Erkulwater

9. 'A Change is Gonna Come': Spiritual Leadership for Social Change in the United States; Thad Williamson

10. Living a Life of Consequence: How Not to Chase a Fake Rabbit; Craig T. Kocher

11. Suffering and Sacrifice: Individual and Collective Benefits, and Implications for Leadership; Scott T. Allison and Gwendolyn C. Setterberg
12. Leadership, Spirituality and Values in a Secular Age: Insights from Charles Taylor and James MacGregor Burns; Richard L. Morrill

Afterword

Notes on Contributors

Index