The Emerging Diaconate: Servant Leaders in a Servant Church

by William T. Ditewig

Book Overview

THE EMERGING DIACONATE looks at the proliferation of the permanent deacons in the Latin Church especially since the Order was "renewed" to a permanent ecclesiastical rank in 1967. Deacon Ditewig focuses on the traditional view of the deacon as a kenotic "servant," but balances this self-emptying view of the deacon with theosis, the Eastern Catholic belief based on St. Paul's phrase that deacons "fill-up" in Christ just as they pour themselves out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809144492
• ISBN13: 9780809144495
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"