John N Collins

Diakonia Studies

Critical Issues in Ministry

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Produktbeschreibung

In this collection of papers John N. Collins closes his account on 40 years of involvement in linguistic research and argumentation concerning the nature and functioning of Christian ministry (diakonia). Using original philosophical and lexicographical research, This book offers an engaging conclusion to Collins's groundbreaking 1990 book Diakonia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 38mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199367573
• ISBN-10: 0199367574
• Artikelnr.: 40398141

Autorenporträt

John N. Collins is Lector Emeritus at Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Preface
* Studies in diakonia
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* Diakonia from the nineteenth century to today
* 1. From diakonia to diaconia 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
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* 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
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* Towards ministry for the twenty-first century
* 11. Theology of ministry in the ywentieth century: ongoing problems
or new orientations?
* 12. Ordained and other ministries: making a difference
* 13. Fitting lay ministries into a theology of ministry
* Part 1: A critique of an American consensus
* Part 2: Making a fit
* 14. Ties that bind: deacons today in the grip of yesteryear
* Selected Publications
* Sources of Studies
* Indices of Names, Biblical and Early Christian sources