Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 657

Chap. IV]

THEOLOGY

IN ITS

PARTS

service of your faith (Ova la koI Xeirovpyia

633

t/;? Trta-retu?

ufXMP ),

which he was to accomplish by his martyrdom, a saying in which it appears, from the additional word " sacrifice," that he by no means refers to his apostolic office. And in the 30th verse he mentions a service (Xecrovpyia'), which he was not to administer in his

office to

the Philippians, but which,

on the contrary, they were to administer to him. But wherever on the other hand the administration of a definite office is mentioned in a technical sense, the word " diaconia " is In 1 Tim. i. 12 Paul declares that used and not XeiTovpyia. he is put into the ministri/, i.e. into the diaconia, viz. into In 1 Cor.

his apostolic office.

xii.

5

it

is

expressly stated

that there are diversities of ministrations (^Siaipeaefi Sluko-

we

"gave some, and evangelists; and some, apostles; and some, prophets; some, pastors and teachers " and all these together are viSiv).

In Eph.

iv.

2

are told that Christ

;

called unto the

work

of ministering (et? ep'yov SiuKovia'i).

In this sense Paul speaks of himself constantly as a diaconos

Hence we must dismiss the objection that name of diaconate is now indicative of but one of the The use of it by the New Testament is conclusive. offices.

of Jesus Christ.

the

Neither was there an escape from the dilemma by the use of For the terms "(Economical" or "technical" departments.

one reason the symmetry would then be lost from the names And, moreover, the word technical of the four coordinates.

would have brought us back again to the subjective di^iand the word oeconomic would refer to the Churcli

sion,

organization.

Office

alone stands

coordinate

with

Bible,

Church and Dogma as a supernatural element, and this word office cannot be applied to any other but to the Diaconiological departments.

Nothing need be said in justification of the name of Bihlio. departments, and the question of what is or is not to be classed under this rubric must be reserved for later discussion. But we must briefly vindicate the name of Ecclesilogical

departments in the sense indicated above. At first sight it appears that the twofold assertion is contradictory, that the Church in this connection is a supernatural fruit of ological

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