A Monocultural Usage:

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" A Monocultural Usage: "
John N. Collins

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085285
Doc. No	:	LA128914
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157007211X586098‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John N. Collins
Title & Author	:	A Monocultural Usage: [Article] : διακον - words in Classical, Hellenistic, and Patristic Sources\ John N. Collins
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Vigiliae Christianae
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	66/3
Page No	:	287–309
Abstract	:	A scholarly consensus about the interpretation of the διακον - words has been in place for 70 years. The consensus maintains that early Christian writers adopted διακον - words because of their lowly connotations and imbued them with new meanings specific to Christian living and community arrangements. The new meanings had developed on the model of Jesus who came to serve others in self-giving love. A 1990 study of pre-Christian and early Christian Greek claimed to invalidate the consensus, a claim now supported in specialist publications. This paper extends sampling of usage into patristic usage. Implications for exegesis and ecclesiology are immediate. A scholarly consensus about the interpretation of the διακον - words has been in place for 70 years. The consensus maintains that early Christian writers adopted διακον - words because of their lowly connotations and imbued them with new meanings specific to Christian living and community arrangements. The new meanings had developed on the model of Jesus who came to serve others in self-giving love. A 1990 study of pre-Christian and early Christian Greek claimed to invalidate the consensus, a claim now supported in specialist publications. This paper extends sampling of usage into patristic usage. Implications for exegesis and ecclesiology are immediate.
Descriptor	:	Diakonie
Descriptor	:	ministry
Descriptor	:	service
Descriptor	:	διακονία
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157007211X586098‬