Protestant Recovery of Deacons and Deaconesses
The terms ‘deaconess’ and ‘deacon’ refer to an office of service in the church that exists today and dates back to the first century. The terms themselves are derived from the Greek verb, diakonein, and its cognate nouns diakonos and diakonia. Diakonein meant to serve or to minister. The noun diakon...
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
2023-09-01
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