- 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
(p.3) I Assumptions
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- Source:
- Diakonia
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Keywords: Germany, diakonia, deacons, diaconate, service, Bible, theology, Wilhelm Brandt, W. H. Beyer
Keywords: Jesus, Christians, diakonia, service, God, Mark 10:45
Keywords: Rome, deacons, diakonia, diaconiae, diaconia, Liber Pontificalis, relief, poor, service
Keywords: Republic, Plato, trade, merchandising, social functions, subordinate, go-between, Hermes, slaves, diakonia
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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