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Diakonia Studies: Critical Issues in Ministry

Diakonia Studies: Critical Issues in Ministry

Collins, John N.

Hardcover

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0199367574
ISBN13: 9780199367573
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 17 2014
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 1.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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 inadequacies in Georgi's brief account. Then in 1990 Collins published his exhaustive semantic survey, Diakonia: Re-interpreting the Ancient Sources. His re-interpretation was variously hailed as devastating, provocative, unfashionable, and a scholarly avalanche whose conclusions are inescapable. Since then, the book has stood at the center of the Collins-Debate. Meanwhile Collins's findings have been incorporated in the authoritative Danker Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

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