Practising chaordic beauty : on embracing strangers in one inner city faith community

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dc.contributor.author De Beer, Stephanus Francois
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-01T06:45:48Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-01T06:45:48Z
dc.date.issued 2016-11-18
dc.description.abstract In this article I read one inner city faith community – the Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF) – through the lenses of literature that reflects on chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I explore whether an emphasis on the management of diversity, which is widespread in organisational and ecclesial practices and languages, should not be replaced with a spirituality of vulnerable embrace, as I discover it in this specific faith community. It is a spirituality that combines an invitation and radical embrace of diversity, and a dance with chaos, with a posture of vulnerability and a vision of justice. I bring the reflections of community members in TLF on difference and diversity in their organisation, in conversation with scholars contemplating chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I then wonder whether their emphasis on embrace instead of management does not open up the possibility of retrieving and affirming the hidden beauties and potentialities mediated by diversity, which is, I suggest, to practise ‘chaordic beauty’. en_ZA
dc.description.department Centre for Contextual Ministry en_ZA
dc.description.department Practical Theology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2017 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://www.hts.org.za en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation De Beer, S., 2016, ‘Practising chaordic beauty: On embracing strangers in one inner city faith community’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 72(1), a3523. http://dx.DOI. org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3523. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/hts.v72i1.3523
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60738
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher AOSIS Open Journals en_ZA
dc.rights © 2016. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_ZA
dc.subject Tshwane leadership foundation (TLF) en_ZA
dc.subject Chaordic beauty en_ZA
dc.subject Diversity en_ZA
dc.subject Justice en_ZA
dc.subject Inner city en_ZA
dc.subject Faith community en_ZA
dc.subject.other Theology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.other SDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.other Theology articles SDG-11
dc.subject.other SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities
dc.subject.other Theology articles SDG-16
dc.subject.other SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.title Practising chaordic beauty : on embracing strangers in one inner city faith community en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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