- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Diakonia
- I Assumptions
- 1. The Latter-Day Servant Church
- 2. The Servant Son of Man
- 3 The Early Servant Church
- Conclusion to Part I
- II Non-Christian Sources
- 4. The Go-Between
- 5. Word
- 6 Deed
- 7 House and Table
- 8. A Question of Diplomacy
- 9. In the Language of the Papyri
- III First Christian Writings
- 10. Spokesmen and Emissaries of Heaven
- 11. Emissaries in the Church
- 12. Commissions under God, Church, and Spirit
- 13. Deacons
- 14. The Gospels
- Afterword
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Abbreviations
- Index of Sources of διακον- Words
- Papyri
- Inscriptions
- Biblical and Early Christian Writings
- Papyri Relating to Early Deacons
- Index of Other Greek Terms
- Index of Authors
The Gospels
The Gospels
- Chapter:
- (p.245) 14. The Gospels
- Source:
- Diakonia
- Author(s):
John N. Collins
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines whether “diakonia” is a suitable designation for the churches' responsibility to redeem the oppressed and the dispossessed. Related to that by reason of today's prevailing view of the diaconate is the question of which direction the study ought to take us in if we are to arrive at defining more satisfactorily the character and role of ordained diaconate today. Next, on the broader scene of ministry, are some reflections on the relationship between ministry and charism. Closer to the nub are the succeeding considerations as to where ecumenism now stands on its already long journey towards an agreed understanding of ministry. This discussion also considers the ultimate question of just what early Christians considered that ministry to be without which a group of Christians did not constitute a church. Finally, the chapter asks whether today, according to that early Christian view, women can take up that kind of ministry.
Keywords: diakonia, ministry, Christians, diaconate, charism, ecumenism, women
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Diakonia
- I Assumptions
- 1. The Latter-Day Servant Church
- 2. The Servant Son of Man
- 3 The Early Servant Church
- Conclusion to Part I
- II Non-Christian Sources
- 4. The Go-Between
- 5. Word
- 6 Deed
- 7 House and Table
- 8. A Question of Diplomacy
- 9. In the Language of the Papyri
- III First Christian Writings
- 10. Spokesmen and Emissaries of Heaven
- 11. Emissaries in the Church
- 12. Commissions under God, Church, and Spirit
- 13. Deacons
- 14. The Gospels
- Afterword
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Abbreviations
- Index of Sources of διακον- Words
- Papyri
- Inscriptions
- Biblical and Early Christian Writings
- Papyri Relating to Early Deacons
- Index of Other Greek Terms
- Index of Authors
