Diakonia Re-Interpreting the Ancient Sources - John N Collins

Diakonia Re-Interpreting the Ancient Sources

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Buch | Softcover
388 Seiten
2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-539602-7 (ISBN)
54,85 inkl. MwSt
This is the first comprehensive study of the Greek word ''diakonia,'' from which the word ''deacon'' is derived. Diakonia and its cognates appear frequently throughout the New Testament, but its precise meaning has long been disputed. Today, it is usually translated ''service'' or ''ministry.'' As Collins shows, this understanding of diakonia has been important to the development of a modern consensus about the nature of Christian ministry. Based on the understanding that diakonia is ''service'' and that the diakonos (deacon) is a ''servant,'' nearly all Christian bodies today agree that the central idea of ministry is that of helping the needy, and that the ''servant'' church should be humbly devoted to helping the world, after the model of Jesus. Collins conducts an exhaustive study of diakonia in Christian and non-Christian sources from about 200 BCE to 200 CE. He finds that in all such sources the word is used to mean ''messenger'' or ''emissary,'' and has no implications of humility or of helping the needy. This discovery undermines much of the theological discussion of ministry that has taken place over the past fifty years.

John Collins is the Professor of Biblical Studies (retired) at Loreto Mandeville Hall, Melbourne

I. ASSUMPTIONS; CONCLUSION; II. NON-CHRISTIAN SOURCES; III. FIRST CHRISTIAN WRITINGS; AFTERWORD; NOTES; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX III; ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX OF SOURCES; INDEX OF OTHER GREEK TERMS; INDEX OF AUTHORS

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 552 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10 0-19-539602-2 / 0195396022
ISBN-13 978-0-19-539602-7 / 9780195396027
Zustand Neuware
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