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).

"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

• 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