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 component
in the Christian church community, as well as the criteria of a healthy leadership style not
only in its internal framework, but in the overall social context. This paper is a qualitative-descriptive
study with research on leadership, styles and personality of the leader according to Christian
theology, and applying a metasystemic perspective within wider domains of society. We define
criteria for healthy leadership in correlation with social deviations of the same, observed and described
in the framework of Christian psychotherapy and application of the Transactional Analytical
methodology in the analysis of the focused phenomena. Leadership in the Christian Church has
an antinomian character and a pastoral dimension. The personality of the church leader is formed
according to the criteria of the degrees of spiritual development. The presented model of church
leadership 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 deviant
social phenomena of identification (nation, party, state).