Diakonia studies : critical issues in ministry / John N Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, John N. (John Neil), 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pastoral theology--History.

Pastoral theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diakonia Studies closes the account on John N. Collins's 40 years of involvement in groundbreaking linguistic research and argumentation concerning the nature and functioning of Christian ministry. Dispute has swirled around the Greek term diakonia for 50 years. Once seen as enshrining the New Testament value of loving Christian service-what Jerome Murphy-O'Connor called ""one of the dogmas of New Testament scholarship""-the word was exposed by Dieter Georgi in 1964 as arguably meaning something quite different. In 1974 John N. Collins published his first paper on the issue, pointing to inadeq

Contents:

PART ONE: DIAKONIA FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO TODAY

1. From διακονία to Diakonia today: Historical aspects of interpretation

2. Re-interpreting Diakonia in Germany: Anni Hentschel's Diakonia im Neuen Testament

3. The problem with values carried by Diakonia/Diakonie in recent church documents

PART TWO: DIAKONIA IN THE EARLY CHURCH

4. How ancient Greeks thought of Diakonia

5. Diakonia in the teaching of Jesus

6. The mediatorial role of Paul as Minister/Diakonos

7. Ministry as office

8. Ministry among gifts

9. Paul, delegate to Jerusalem

10. The Diakonia of the seven

PART THREE: TOWARD MINISTRY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

11. Theology of ministry in the twentieth century: Ongoing problems or new orientations?

12. Ordained and other ministries: Making a difference

13. Fitting lay ministries into a theology of ministry

14. Ties that bind: Deacons today in the grip of yesteryear.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-936758-2

0-19-938461-4