A Monocultural Usage
Διακον - words in Classical, Hellenistic, and Patristic Sources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4064674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John N Collins (1 21 Kananook Avenue Seaford, Vic. 3198 Australia [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 287-309 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vigiliae Christianae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-6032 • E-ISSN: 1570-0720 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157007211x586098 |
| OpenAlex | W2093718829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Art · Biblical studies · Early Christianity · Ecclesiology · Epistemology · Exegesis · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Patristics · Root (linguistics) · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |