Open AccessWho do you want: Barabbas or Jesus?Power and empowerment in theological education
Author(s) -
H. Jurgens Hendriks
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
stellenbosch theological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-9467
pISSN - 2413-9459
DOI - 10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a20
Subject(s) - identity (music) , empowerment , power (physics) , theology , sociology , cruciform , pedagogy , philosophy , aesthetics , law , political science , history , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The article deals with theological education and leadership and questions the way power and empowerment functions in the church. It argues that theologically we follow the Barabbas choice and reject Jesus by not choosing the way of the cross and weakness. Our true identity needs to be, in following Philippians 2 and other passages, cruciform kenotic. The implications of such an identity for theological education and leadership are then put forward.