‘ Ministries In The New Testament And The Early Church’
ARTICLE REVIEW: ‘ MINISTRIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE EARLY CHURCH’
AUTHOR: SCHMIDT, PETER
In This article Peter Schmidt looks at ministry in the New Testament and early church, comparing them to what we now understand to be ministry and office , with the aim of proving that offices as we know them, were not the explicit will of the historical Christ but were an evolution which occurred because of historical and cultural circumstances at a particular time and so we are not bound, Schmidt says to the structures we have in the Church today. He investigates this by looking at terminology and the early church history.
Terminology
Church Office
Schmidt does a study of New Testament words, in the original Greek and comes to the following conclusions :
The Greek terms for office are not used for people in the Church but only for Jewish priests, gentile civil officials, the angels and finally for Christ.
The term for priestly office are reserved......
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