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Download Thesis This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Leadership in the Church A heuristic framework and critical appraisal of contemporary British Church leadership literature Kimber, Jonathan Richard Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). 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Oct. 2021 Leadership in the Church: a heuristic framework and critical appraisal of contemporary British Church leadership literature Jonathan Kimber Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD by research King’s College, London 2014 The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. 1 Abstract Since the mid-1970s, there has been a significant increase in British ministerial literature focusing on a particular understanding of leadership. Whilst many within the Church have eagerly adopted this approach, others have been troubled by significant aspects of its recommendations, sensing them to be anomalous within the life of the Church. Treating this ministerial literature as a discourse (which it terms the Church Leadership Discourse (CLD)), this thesis has held against it a heuristic framework comprising two approaches to reality (which are derived from the works of McGilchrist and Louth in particular). One of these approaches, termed the Cartesian, is characterised by clarity, focus and detailed analysis. The other, termed the Gestalt, is attuned to questions of degree, of disposition, and of connectedness. Importantly, both approaches are needed, but their proper relationship is not one of simple balance. Rather, the clarity of the Cartesian approach should always be in service of the broader wisdom of the Gestalt. A further significant move, inspired by the work of Kuhn, was to recognise the importance of anomalies as potential indicators that an existing paradigm may be insufficient. In the core chapters of the thesis, I examine the CLD in the light of this heuristic framework. My conclusion is that the CLD is significantly biased towards a Cartesian approach. Examining the CLD in the light of this framework proves fruitful not only in identifying a broad range of anomalies within it, but also in establishing their interconnectedness, pervasiveness, and theological insufficiency. Taken together, these findings form a strong argument that the CLD arises from an approach to reality that is inappropriate and inadequate for a significant role within the Christian Church. The thesis concludes by offering an outline of a reconfigured ministerial discourse. Here, the calling of the Church is to improvise faithfully and trustingly within God's unfolding drama, in such a way that the mode of being of the Church is increasingly conformed to the very being of God. 2 Table of Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Table of Tables ............................................................................................................................ 9 Introduction and overview ........................................................................................................ 10 Focus and aims ...................................................................................................................... 10 Background............................................................................................................................ 14 Academic location ................................................................................................................. 15 Parameters ............................................................................................................................ 17 Structure................................................................................................................................ 19 PART A - LEADERSHIP DISCOURSE AND A HEURISTIC FRAMEWORK ......................................... 20 Chapter 1 – Discourses of leadership and management............................................................ 20 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 20 1.1 Discourse: the shaping of ‘normality’ ........................................................................ 20 1.2 Discourses of management and leadership in Western culture ................................. 22 Ways of conceiving leadership .......................................................................................... 22 Western: successive discourses of leadership ................................................................... 24 1.3 The rise of leadership within church discourse .......................................................... 29 1.4 A primary text for the CLD – Growing Leaders (2004) ................................................ 33 ‘The Christian life is about change’ .................................................................................... 33 Leadership without meandering ........................................................................................ 35 The necessity of method ................................................................................................... 36 Vision: striking, simple, compelling – and instrumental ..................................................... 37 Optimism and rhetoric....................................................................................................... 38 Theology ............................................................................................................................ 38 1.5 Three secondary texts ................................................................................................ 39 Developing Visionary Leadership (2004) ............................................................................ 39 How to Do Mission Action Planning; a Vision-Centred Approach (2009)............................ 40 Hope for the Church; Contemporary Strategies for Growth (2002) .................................... 41 3 1.6 Beyond the CLD ......................................................................................................... 42 CLD and Western’s discourses ........................................................................................... 42 Popular passive resistance ................................................................................................. 43 Popular active resistance ................................................................................................... 44 Academic resistance .......................................................................................................... 46 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 48 Chapter 2 - Introducing the primary critical axes: Cartesian and Gestalt approaches to reality 49 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 49 2.1 Two approaches to reality ......................................................................................... 51 An initial sketch: linear clarity and integrated holism ........................................................ 51 Naming the two approaches.............................................................................................. 52 McGilchrist: two fundamentally different ‘versions’ of the world ..................................... 53 Louth: should theology seek to be recast as a science? ..................................................... 55 Possible objections to the use of McGilchrist .................................................................... 58 2.2 A Cartesian approach: three overarching emphases ................................................. 61 1: That which can be categorised ...................................................................................... 62 2: An instrumental disposition ........................................................................................... 66 3: Optimism and the 'positive' ........................................................................................... 69 Is this framework not self-defeating?
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