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Abstract

This thesis was begun to provide the foundation of leadership, which has been receiving a big concern from the ministers in local churches, as a task of practical theology. Due to an excessive compartmentalized methodology in the contemporary academic field, various theological themes have been dealt with in the aspect of reductionism or relativism and it made a difficult situation to do an extensive understanding and application upon several factors within theology. While traditional categories and themes still maintain their former boundaries, newly emerging themes often try to show their academic adequacy through the separation from the past. This theological structure based on separation produces a certain malfunction to both theology as a whole and its details, which probably leads to collateral damage. From this aspect, this thesis argues that practical theology cannot survive without its relation to other theological studies such as biblical, systematic, and historical fields. On the other hand, individual themes, which belong to each theological field, should maintain a close and dynamic relationship to other sections in the same field. Particularly, it strives to resolve a situation of theological inability originated from a dichotomic separation between transcendence and immanence, essence and existence, and theory and practice using leadership as an intermediator. However, this intention does not mean that leadership is able to revive the rest of all theologies. Rather, in order to appropriately deal with leadership in the area of practical theology, this thesis suggests a method of incorporation and coexistence, thus, it expects the overall spread of methodological shift over the rest of theology as a whole. Before the middle age in European society, theology, spirituality and leadership were regarded as exclusive privileges which could not be shared by the majority of the society. A few intelligentsia or the powerful monopolized knowledge which became a strong weapon to protect their political hegemony. But, such knowledge was popularized as the passing of time and the majority of people naturally embraced the possession of knowledge. As a result, people's worldview has been widened and the perspective on religion has been drastically changed as well. Now, knowledge, which moved its initiative from privileged class to secular society, expands its horizon into real world, so its subject matter and practical area have been improving more diversly unlike its past. This historically swift change necessarily influences the holistic understanding of theology as well. While theology's nature moves from theory and logic to existence and exploration, the methodology of theology cannot imagine itself without the ordinary life of common people. The past tendency of theology according to isolation and separation lost its ground. If theology wants to gain its appropriateness, it should concentrate on the way of how to find Trinitarian God in the midst of ordinary people's life. This thesis performs the above task through the studies of leadership. Yet, it does not make any detailed topics or various instructions regarding leadership. Rather, its ultimate objective is to accomplish a theoretical foundation for continuous development of leadership as a task of practical theology in its correlation to spirituality and theology. Unless this presupposition is possible, the reason of practical theology's heavy concern on leadership would be decreased. Thus, this thesis focuses on retaining such consistent logic for the further improvement of leadership