03252cam a2200361 a 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036010001700077040009100094020001500185020001800200028002600218035002000244050002500264082001800289100002300307245008000330260005200410300002800462336002600490337002800516338002700544504005700571505098900628505102701617650004602644650004102690650003902731650005802770650002302828655003902851ocm20294276 OCoLC20190708135731.0890814s1989    miu      b    000 0 eng    a   89039372   aDLCbengcDLCdBTCTAdBAKERdYDXCPdBDXdOCLCOdOCLCQdMXLdOCLCFdOCLCOdNLUKBdZAAPA  a0802803520  a978080280352802aACQ62174 980630 Gift!  a(OCoLC)2029427600aBX9423.B45bM35 198900a262/.14422201 aMcKee, Elsie Anne.10aDiakonia in the classical Reformed tradition and today /cElsie Anne McKee.  aGrand Rapids, Mich. :bW.B. Eerdmans,c�1989.  axii, 139 pages ;c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 125-139).0 aIntroduction: The perplexing present -- Our experience -- Some of our questions -- Where this book is going -- 1. The players and their stage -- An age of reformations: naming the players -- Sixteenth- and twentieth-century worldviews -- Ecclesiastical-civil or church-state relations -- Society in the early modern world -- Sola Scriptura and its application -- 2. The theological context -- The relationship of worship and ethics -- The liturgical context of Diakonia -- The ministry int he early and medieval church with special regard to the Diaconate -- The ministry in the Protestant Reformation -- An outline of the Calvinist Reformed theory of plural ministries -- Critique of Calvin's teaching on the ministry -- 3. The social context -- Medieval charitable practices -- The situation in 1500 -- Changes in charitable practices in the sixteenth century -- Arguments on social welfare reform -- The Genevan situation and arguments relating welfare reform to Calvin's Diaconate0 a4. The classical Reformed Diaconate -- Definitions of "deacon" in the sixteenth century -- An outline of Calvin's teaching on the Diaconate -- Development of the administrative deacons: Acts 6:1-6 and I Timothy 3:8-13 -- Development of the women deacons: Romans 16:1-2 and I Timothy 5:3-10 -- The coordination of the twofold Diaconate: Romans 12:8 -- Critique of Calvin's teaching on the Diaconate -- Calvin on women in church leadership, especially women in the Diaconate -- 5. Deacons and Diakonia since the Reformation -- The Reformed Diaconate in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The twentieth century and the ecumenical movement -- Baptism, Eucharist and ministry and the quest for a twentieth-century Diaconate -- 6. The future by way of the past -- From then until now -- Canons of Diakonia in the late twentieth century -- Suggestions for a contemporary Reformed Diaconate -- Appendix: A Diaconal training program for Reformed churches of the twentieth century. 0aService (Theology)xHistory of doctrines. 0aReformed ChurchxDoctrinesxHistory. 0aDeaconsxReformed ChurchxHistory. 7aReformed ChurchxDoctrines.2fast0(OCoLC)fst0109261814aService (Theology) 7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01411628