In German-speaking countries, the role of the diaconate has been strongly influenced by nineteenth-century ideas of diakonia as service towards the poor. As imp

In The Go-Between: Augustine on Deacons Bart J. Koet gives the first ever systematic assessment of a Church Father’s view on the functioning of deacons.

Explores the pastoral implications of a new scholarly understanding of the role of deacons in the Early Church. In many churches today -- Catholic, Anglican, an

Following the volume Deacons and Diakonia in the Early Church: The First Two Centuries (2018), this collection continues the study of deacons into the patristic

This is a comprehensive study of the Greek word 'diakonia', from which the word 'deacon' is derived. Diakonia and its cognates appear frequently throughout the