Prophetic Leadership: One Among Many Roles or a Model for all Roles?

There is a need to see prophetic leadership not so much as one among the various leadership roles, but as a possible model or perspective to shape all such roles. It can be carried out with criticality and creativity, responding to the signs of the times, in the light of the experience of God’s continuing involvement in personal and communitarian history. Authentic prophetic vocation too has several common dimensions across religious traditions. This fact becomes a good boost to understand and cultivate prophetic leadership in an interreligious cultus. Prophetic leadership in this sense can establish fruitful interreligious bonds geared towards a shared mission of facilitating God’s redemptive activity in the here and now