Seeker and Servant

ANNE T. FRAKER is a project associate with the Robert K. Greenleaf Archives. LARRY C. SPEARS is executive director of the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and editor of Reflections on Leadership (1995).

• Part One: Nurturing the Sprit: the Challenges of ReligiousLeadershipReligious Leaders as Seekers and ServantsThe Servant as Nurturer of the Human SpiritSpirituality as LeadershipThe Servant as GradualistTypes of LeadersAn Opportunity for a Powerful New Religious InfluencePart Two: Leaders as Inspirited PersonsThe Collapse of Civilization: A FantasyReflections on SpiritSeeing Things WholeImages of Great SpiritsPope John XXIII: Nurturer of SpiritsTalking and ListeningBeing Who You ArePart Three: Seminary, Church, Foundation: Reflections on ReligiousInstitutionsFableReligious Leadership for These TimesTheology: A Concern for the Conditions Under Which the Human SpiritFlowersThe Need for a Theology of InstitutionsThe Seminary as InstitutionA New Role for SeminariesCritical Thought and Seminary LeadershipThe Trustee Chairperson: Nurturer of the Human SpiritToward a Gentle Revolution Ministry to the StrongThe Inner-City Church as Servant to Its CommunityA Servant-Led SocietyPart Four: Toward the Caring Community: Reflections on Seeking,Giving, and ReceivingThe Search and the SeekerOn Being a Seeker in the Late Twentieth CenturyLost KnowledgeA Lifeline of IdeasOur Indian Experience: What It Suggests About GivingGiving and Receiving Gifts of MoneyIs It More Blessed to Give Than to Receive?Afterword

"Those of us lucky to have known Greenleaf knew him to be agraceful man and experienced his ideas as a call to leadershipthrough serving. Seeker and Servant continues his creative mystery:it speaks not only about leadership but calls you to be a healing,leading influence in your society. This book is an invitation tobecome colleague in the liberation of the human spirit." --Loren B.Mead, former director, Alban Institute, and author of TransformingCongregations for the Future "Here is the complete Greenleaf. Even after decades of workingclosely with him, I discovered a richness of spirit and thoughtthat I had not seen before." --Robert Wood Lynn, instructor, BangorTheological Seminary