A METASYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY IN DEFINING LEADERSHIP AND ITS CRITERIA

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is a description of the concept of leadership as a key componentin the Christian church community, as well as the criteria of a healthy leadership style notonly in its internal framework, but in the overall social context. This paper is a qualitative-descriptivestudy with research on leadership, styles and personality of the leader according to Christiantheology, and applying a metasystemic perspective within wider domains of society. We definecriteria for healthy leadership in correlation with social deviations of the same, observed and describedin the framework of Christian psychotherapy and application of the Transactional Analyticalmethodology in the analysis of the focused phenomena. Leadership in the Christian Church hasan antinomian character and a pastoral dimension. The personality of the church leader is formedaccording to the criteria of the degrees of spiritual development. The presented model of churchleadership with qualities of antinomy has its applicability in the social system of secular leadership,where the function of leadership paradoxically merges into a duty of service against its deviantsocial phenomena of identification (nation, party, state)