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Title Diakonia : church for others / edited by Norbert Greinacher and Norbert Mette ; English language editor, James Aitken Gardiner.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, [1988]
©1988

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  260 D536D    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 134 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Concilium, 0010-5236 ; 198 (4/1988)
Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ; v. 198.
Contents Concilium 198 special column: The Seoul olympics / John A. Coleman -- Diakonia: church for others -- Editorial / Norbert Greinacher, Norbert Mette -- Part I: Distress that calls to heaven, focus on human need -- A divided world. Can we escape mutual injury and self-destruction? / Adebayo Adedeji -- Victims in the affluent society / Gregory Baum -- Part II: 'I see the distress of my people'; divine compassion as a Christian commission -- Good news to the poor / Carlos H. Abesamis -- 'Making earth into heaven': diakonia in the early church / Norbert Brox -- Chuch for others / Ottmar Fuchs -- The prophetic diakonia: the church's contribution to forming humanity's future / Frei Betto -- Part III: Areas of conflict in diaconal praxis -- Diakonia in the church of the rich and the church of the poor: a comparative study in empirical ecclesiology / Hermann Steinkamp -- Solidarity with the lowliest: parish growth through the witness of practical service / Norbert Mette -- 'Waiting at table': a critical feminist theological reflection on diakonia / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- Diakonia in universal context: an African point of view / Patrick Kalilombe -- Diakonia as an agency in the welfare state / Johannes Degen -- Cultural diakonia / Gotthard Fuchs -- Prospect -- 'But if you say so!' A plea for a church of the diakonia / Ulrich Bach.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Service (Theology)
Added Author Greinacher, Norbert, 1931-2022
Mette, Norbert, 1946-
Gardiner, James Aitken.
ISBN 0567300781
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