Master of Arts in Leadership Studies with a concentration in "Leadership and Spirituality"
(36/39 units)
Program Description and Objectives
Today’s opportunities and challenges call leaders to be on the edge of continual learning in order to more fully understand how congregations and other organizations can be a transformative force in the world through mission and service. Leaders -- who know how to form authentic community, enlist teams that multiply individual efforts, make moral choices, and manage conflict -- will more likely move toward deep change that brings transforming results. Even more crucial, is our conviction that the heart of organizational transformation is deep change within the leader -- for Christian leaders this means deepening their spirituality.
The study of leadership and spirituality is an opportunity for authentic leaders to delve deeply into the rich literature of Christian spirituality and leadership studies, while forming a cohort of leaders in meaningful community who share wisdom from personal journeys.
The objectives of this concentration are to:
- examine leadership through the inner life realities of character, call, passion and spirituality of the leader;
- develop a theological framework for leadership, mission and culture, globalization, ethics, spirituality, and other leadership issues;
- review highlights of the historical development and theoretical overview of leadership;
- probe the spiritual dimensions of leadership that include spiritual formation, soul care, and spiritual direction; and
- learn a variety of research methods where participants formulate a problem statement, define terms, conduct a literature review, collect and analyze data, and arrive at a conclusion.
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