Liberating diakonia
By: Kjell Nordstokke
Publisher: Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trondheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788251927956
Subjects: Service (Theology); Church work; Lutheran Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-144).
Table of contents: title: Part I. The theology of diakonia. Diakonia as a theological imperative : a Lutheran perspective; title: Theoretical framework of the science of diakonia; title: Diakonia : theory and praxis; title: Prophetic diakonia; title: Liberating diakonia; title: Part II. The diaconal ministry. The deacon in the New Testament; title: The diaconate : ministry of prophecy and transformation; title: Theology from the south : impulses for diakonia and the education of deacons; title: Part III. Diakonia as integral part of mission. Mission as diakonia; title: The missional church; title: Contemporary challenges of church leadership; title: The ecclesiological self-understanding of the Lutheran World Federation : from "free association" to "communion of churches."