Faith and Inner Leadership: The Integration of Christian and Stoic Virtue Ethics for Resilient Leadership in the Digital Age

Abstract

Leadership in contemporary organisations is marked by volatility, moral complexity, and the erosion of stable value frames. This article develops an integrated theoretical model that connects Christian virtue ethics and Stoic philosophy — Virtue-Centered Inner Governance. Both traditions converge in the core mechanisms of meaning-making, moral responsibility, emotion regulation, and self-discipline. Leadership is conceived as a character-based process resting on transcendent meaning orientation and rational emotion regulation. Four competencies follow from the synthesis: meaning competence, control competence, ethical competence, emotional competence.