From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 1997 - 13:58:31 EDT
At 09:41 AM 7/13/97 -0400, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>At 8:57 AM -0400 7/13/97, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>>Am I overinterpreting this?
>
>I don't think so. I suppose that the problem is the latitude with which the
>word DIAKONIA is to be interpreted. But I think that Paul is wholly
>committed to this conception that you pinpoint here. It is certainly, if
>the evidence of Acts is to be trusted, the reason why he risked his life
>(and lost it) in a return to Jerusalem after his work in the Balkan
>peninsula was finished. Isn't this precisely the conception of a single
>Christendom comprising both Jewish and Gentile Christians (of all stripes
>and sub-persuasions?) that is central to Paul's understanding of Christian
>community?
Thanks - I've now preached it, so it must be true!
Jonathan
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