Diakonia: Re-Interpreting the Ancient Sources - Couverture souple

Collins, John N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195396022 ISBN 13 : 9780195396027

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195396022
• ISBN 13: 9780195396027
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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