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Diakonia: Re-Interpreting the Ancient Sources
Category: Books > Ministry & Parish Life > Ministry Books
Author/Artist: JOHN N COLLINS
ISBN / ID: 9780195396027
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$50.95
  
Description: This is the first comprehensive study of the Greek word ‘diakonia’ which today is usually translated as service or ministry.

This understanding of diakonia has been important to the development of a modern consensus about the nature of Christian ministry.

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 very provocative and creative monograph.” Karl Paul Donfried
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