Studying leadership shows, that there’s no one distinct definition or type of a leader and every period, social cultural context demands different types leaders. The social-political religious-ideologic contexts, hystoric periods can actualize certain highlight some characteristics it. Though, we should know, this mustn’t be the only leader. For people, being means successful, success is define...

Graeme Goldsworthy is a minister of the Anglican Church of Australia and has served in churches in Sydney and Brisbane. He lectured at Moore Theological College, Sydney, in Old Testament, Biblical Theology, and Hermeneutics. Now retired, he continues as a visiting lecturer at Moore College to teach a four th-year B.D. course in Evangelical Hermeneutics. He is the author of several books, includ...

The rationale for Jesus’ use of David’s story in Matt 12:3-4 has attracted varied views biblical scholarship. text records example the first Sabbath conflict Matthew’s Gospel. This article attempted to sample prominent scholarly on 12:3-4. adopted a descriptive and evaluative approach contemporary scholars example, 12:3-4, conflict. aims were describe evaluate why Jesus used Matthew qualitative...

What role language plays in the process of construction Self is an area debate many fields including linguistics, psychology, philosophy and literature. She Unnames Them (1985) by Ursula K. Le Guin a short story which power manifested through female protagonist’s unnaming animals Garden Eden. does not name woman because along with animals, she gives her back to Adam his father. As Biblical allu...

May-June 2012 To the Editor: In the SeptemberOctober 2011 issue, Daniel Groll addresses the question of what health care providers can know about patients’ interests (“What Health Care Providers Know”). He offers helpful refinements to my claim in Patient, Heal Thyself (Oxford, 2008) that generally health providers cannot know what serves patient interests. I am honored that a careful student o...

The authority of a leader is enhanced when her commands or recommendations for action are obeyed. The authority of a leader is also enhanced when her commands are "principled" based on good reasons and therefore the leader is seen to be acting in the interests of her followers. But for a leader interested in maintaining her authority, there is often a con ict between these strategies. For examp...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the reflection on how one can integrate the late modern practice of life coaching with practical theology by employing Biblical perspectives on this practice. I present the so-called coaching revolution, and try to frame questions that may be followed up in later papers and discussions. I begin by describing coaching as a concrete practice, before I...

Like other scholars who hold that film is an important conversation partner with the perspectives of faith, Robert K. Johnston proposes to put film and Christian Scripture—and, specifically, Ecclesiastes—in a creative two-way dialogue. What makes Useless Beauty notable and well worth reading, however, is Johnston’s effort to resist the usual methods of Christian movie critique. Frequently, he c...

Karl Barth’s gender perspective is often analysed with reference to his so-called “theoethics” or “creational theology”. This perspective perpetuates an asymmetry in gender relations that was prevalent in Biblical times, throughout Christianity and to some extent still is visible today. He based his view on the subordination of women on an exegesis of Genesis 1:27 as “intertext” of Ephesians 5:...

Over the past 30 years, methods of hermeneutics in the context of biblical studies have diversified impressively. Even for the specialist it is often challenging to stay up-to-date in the labyrinth of new methodologies and proposals for biblical interpretation. Over the past decade, cultural criticism has become an important critical tool and has gained significant recognition. In the present s...