Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order

By James Monroe Barnett

Book Overview

Reissued by popular demand, here is a highly readable and comprehensive study that has established itself as the definitive work on the diaconate. Drawing upon original sources, the book provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563380935
• ISBN13: 9781563380938
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Trinity Press International
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Future of the Diaconate

In one book, Barnett has captured the historical, ecclesiological, spiritual and scriptural foundation of the order of Deacon. Even more substantial, Barnett offers some outstanding forward looking views of the Diaconate in the 21st Century.The book is balanced and comprehensive in approach. The only negative aspect is, well, Barnett must have heard some fairly bad Deacon Homilies as he laments rather strongly the weaknesses there. But such is the truth. This is a must read for Priests and Deacons in formation. For me, a cherished book.

A Full Order

This is a very profound study of the Diaconate and how it developed from the biblical times to the present in the Christian Church. The Deacon is a full and equal order as the Presbyterate in the sense that is a vocation, a call from God to serve his people, and not just a kind of minor order in the Church of God. Deaconship, if lived in it's full manifestation is the most wonderful vocation, because at the end, we all are called to be minor in order to become the major in the kingdom of God. WE are all called in the spirit of "Diakonos" or in the spirit to serve others.