The diaconal ministry in the mission of the church
Subtitle: LWF studies, 2006
By: edited by Reinhard Boettcher ; on behalf of the Lutheran World Federation, Department for Theology and Studies
Contributors: Lutheran World Federation. Department for Theology and Studies
Series: LWF studies -- no. 1/2006; LWF studies -- 2006
Publisher: The Lutheran World Federation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9783905676488
Subjects: Mission of the church; Deacons; Congresses; Lutherans
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Toward Lutheran theological understandings of the diaconal ministry / Reinhard Boettcher; title: Responding to poverty and exclusion: the diaconal ministry in the UELCI / Rebecca Sangeetha and Anand Sebeyan Hemrom; title: "We didn't know they existed...": the diaconal ministry in the ELCA / Nancy E. Gable; title: The diaconal ministry: a "shared ministry" in the IECLB? / Ruthild Brakemeier; title: Ecclesiological reflections on the diaconal ministry: a Norwegian perspective / Stephanie Dietrich; title: The diaconal ministry in the Lutheran churches; title: Voices from the regions