Diakonia in the classical Reformed tradition and today /
Published by : W.B. Eerdmans, (Grand Rapids, Mich. :) Physical details: xii, 139 pages ; 21 cm ISBN:0802803520; 9780802803528.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie | 262.14 MCK (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | APA021770 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-139).
Introduction: 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 Diaconate
4. 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.
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