The problem statement for this study is found in the relation between the community of believers and the service of the deacons. The aim of the study was to show the close relation between the terms koinonia and diakonia. In this Practical Theological study the method of Zerfass was used. By means of a literature search basis-theoretical principles were formulated. Through a hermeneutical interaction between the basis-theoretical principles and the meta-theoretical perspectives new practical-theoretical guidelines were established. In Chapter 2 basis-theoretical principles were formulated from Scripture and other literature. The meaning of the terms koinonia, diakonia and diakonos were traced as well as the use of the terms in the Old and New Testaments. With regard to this matter the focus was on Acts 6 as locus classicus for the institution of the office of deacon with special reference to the "Seven". The use of the terms in the church history and the church tradition is studied by way of literature studies, after which the use and application of the terms in the Reformed Churches of South Africa are discussed. In Chapter 3 the metatheoretical perspectives were compiled through study of the sociology and social welfare as ancillary subjects. The similarities were indicated. An empirical study in the Reformed Churches of South Africa showed that the terms koinonia, diakonia and the service of the deacons were undefined. In Chapter 4 some practical-theoretical guidelines were given with reference to the hermeneutical interaction between the basis-theoretical principles and the metatheoretical perspectives. The final conclusion in Chapter 5 stressed the close connection and relation between the community of believers and the service of the deacons. The relationship between believers, stems from their relationship with God. Therefore people who would earnestly like to do something for God, should be guided, equipped and involved by the deacons to serve each other. This diakonia must, in turn, serve to initiate and stimulate koinonia. In the practical implementation of this, the office of the deacon finds its niche. / Thesis (M.Th. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

The problem statement for this study is found in the relation between the community of believers and the service of the deacons. The aim of the study was to show the close relation between the terms koinonia and diakonia. In this Practical Theological study the method of Zerfass was used. By means of a literature search basis-theoretical principles were formulated. Through a hermeneutical interaction between the basis-theoretical principles and the meta-theoretical perspectives new practical-theoretical guidelines were established. In Chapter 2 basis-theoretical principles were formulated from Scripture and other literature. The meaning of the terms koinonia, diakonia and diakonos were traced as well as the use of the terms in the Old and New Testaments. With regard to this matter the focus was on Acts 6 as locus classicus for the institution of the office of deacon with special reference to the "Seven". The use of the terms in the church history and the church tradition is studied by way of literature studies, after which the use and application of the terms in the Reformed Churches of South Africa are discussed. In Chapter 3 the metatheoretical perspectives were compiled through study of the sociology and social welfare as ancillary subjects. The similarities were indicated. An empirical study in the Reformed Churches of South Africa showed that the terms koinonia, diakonia and the service of the deacons were undefined. In Chapter 4 some practical-theoretical guidelines were given with reference to the hermeneutical interaction between the basis-theoretical principles and the metatheoretical perspectives. The final conclusion in Chapter 5 stressed the close connection and relation between the community of believers and the service of the deacons. The relationship between believers, stems from their relationship with God. Therefore people who would earnestly like to do something for God, should be guided, equipped and involved by the deacons to serve each other. This diakonia must, in turn, serve to initiate and stimulate koinonia. In the practical implementation of this, the office of the deacon finds its niche. / Thesis (M.Th. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

Paul the Deacon wrote at a time when the Regnum Langobardorum was on the cusp of downfall and attachment to the Carolingian empire. Paul’s narratives (the Historia Langobardorum in particular) have become vital sources for Italian medieval history and a window on the world of the eighth century in the West. Recent approaches to Paul have projected modern perceptions onto his works in the quest to identify his politico-ethnic viewpoint. Consequently his personal ‘voice’ has been lost in modern treatments. The narrative structure of his work, and analysis of the kind of dramatic events that interested him, are areas that have hitherto been largely ignored by scholars. This thesis seeks to provide the context for both Paul’s Life and Works and to present an analysis of what it was that Paul actually said rather than trying to conjure an analysis from what he did not say. It will demonstrate that there is not only a ‘multi-vocality’ within the works of Paul, but links, connections, even contradictions that in themselves serve to present and show Paul’s singularity as both a writer and an individual in challenging times for both him personally and for Italy generally. Yet analysing Paul by using Paul alone is a teleological cul-de-sac and thus this thesis will seek to compare his narrative approach with that of other early medieval authors.

Diakonatas savo istoriją Bažnyčioje skaičiuoja nuo to meto, kai buvo parašyti Apaštalų Darbai, todėl visų pirma tai labai sena tarnystė. Diakonato tarnystės esmė – pagalba vyskupams bei kunigams liturgijoje, pastoracijoje ir karitatyvinėje veikloje. Diplominiame darbe licenciato laipsniui gauti Lotynų ir bizantinio rito apeigų diakonato ypatumai Katalikų Bažnyčios teisėje yra atkreipiamas dėmesys į keletą istorinių aspektų, dėl kurių yra pastebimas skirtumas tarp Rytų ir Vakarų Bažnyčiose tarnaujantiems diakonams suteiktų teisinių galių. Tai tapo Katalikų Bažnyčios vidaus reikalu po to, kai dalis Rytų Bažnyčių susivienijo su Šventuoju Sostu. Gerbdamas šias Bažnyčias, Šventasis Sostas nesiėmė iniciatyvos keisti jų vidaus tvarkos liturginėse tradicijose ir hierarchijoje, todėl jos vadovaujasi sava teise. Šios teisės skirtumai nuo Vakarų bažnytinės teisės yra Rytų ir Vakarų Krikščionybėje vykusių istorinių procesų pasekmė, todėl šiame darbe daug vietos skiriama diakonato raidai, ypač Baltarusijos graikų Katalikų Bažnyčioje bei Ukrainos graikų Katalikų Bažnyčioje. Skirtingai nuo kitų Rytų Katalikų Bažnyčių, šios abi Bažnyčios yra istoriškai tampriai susijusios su Lietuva bei Katalikų Bažnyčia Lietuvoje. / Deaconship has been present in the history of Church from the time The Acts of Apostles were written, therefore, it is regarded a very old service. The essence of this service is helping bishops and priests during liturgy, pastoration, and in caritative activities. The work The Peculiarities of Latin and Byzantine Rite Deaconships in the Law of Catholic Church addresses some historical aspects resulting in the differences between the legal rights awarded to deacons serving in Eastern and Western Churches. This became an internal issue of Catholic Church when a part of Eastern Church has unified with The Holy See. Respecting these Churches, The Holy See had not initiated changes are following their own law. The differences between this law and the law of Western Church is n outcome of historical processes having taken place in Eastern and Western Christianity, therefore, the major focus in this work is put on the development of deaconship, especially in the Greek Catholic Church of Belarus and Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine. As distinct from other Eastern Churches, both these Churches are historically closely related with Lithuania and Catholic Church in Lithuania.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:49:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA OLIVEIRA PAULO.pdf: 2082679 bytes, checksum: 7b51f313211dd727a40bc12c6c1e3d78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-26 / The objectives of this study was the investigation of texts from the New Testament that concern the women s diakonia. We intend to investigate Lc 10,38-42 and Rm16,1-2, emphasizing Marta and Febe at the deacon minister. The reason was to recover the history of women s deacon in the socio-politics context of the first century, around the year 30 B.C., as Marta at the Jesus movement. The dissertation was subdivided in four chapters. We discuss Febe and the deacon minister around the years 56-57, date of the letter to the Jewish- Christian in Rome. We believe that these women played the same deacon activities in diverse time at the original Christianity. Febe did not follow, served Jesus and has not been healed by Him, because Jesus acted around the year 30 B.C. However, Febe was a deacon at the Paulinas Communities. We hope that the subject under study may bring new perspectives for future researches. / Nesta pesquisa temos como objetivo investigar textos do Novo Testamento que abordam a diaconia de mulheres. Pretendemos investigar Lc 10,38-42 e Rm 16,1-2 destacando Mar ta e Febe no ministério diaconal. O intuito é resgatar a história da diaconia de mulheres no contexto sóciopolítico do século primeiro, por volta do ano 30 d.C.; como é o caso de Marta no movimento de Jesus. Dividimos a dissertação em quatro capítulos. Abarcamos Febe e o ministério diaconal, por volta dos anos 56-57, data da carta à comunidade judaico-cristã em Roma. Acreditamos que essas mulheres exerceram a mesma atividade diaconal em épocas diversas nos cristianismos originários. Febe não seguiu, nem serviu a Jesus e nem mesmo foi curada por Ele, pois Jesus atuou por volta do ano 30 d.C.; enquanto Febe foi diácona das comunidades paulinas. Esperamos que o assunto pesquisado possa abrir novas perspectivas para futuras investigações.

HCl ist ein Nebenprodukt bei vielen organischen Chlorierungsprozessen. Die Aufarbeitung von HCl wäre wirtschaftlich sinnvoll. Eine der möglichen Optionen ist die Rückgewinnung des Chlors durch die katalytische HCl-Oxidation mit O2 (Deacon-Prozess). Das Hauptziel dieser Arbeit war es, die katalytische Aktivität von kupferchlorid-haltigen Schmelzen in Abhängigkeit von der Temperatur und dem Verhältnis der Reaktionsgase zu untersuchen. Dazu wurden Versuche unter stationären und instationären Reaktionsbedingungen im Temperaturintervall zwischen 400 und 500 °C durchgeführt. Für das bessere Verständnis des Katalysator-Systems wurde ein thermodynamisches Modell für das Stoffsystem MeCl-CuCl-CuCl2-CuO-HCl-H2O-Cl2-O2 (Me = Li, Na, K) erstellt. Weiterhin wurden mithilfe von kinetischen Untersuchungen Hinweise auf die Rolle der gelösten oxidischen Zwischenverbindungen im stufenweisen Reaktionsmechanismus gefunden. Mit den Versuchsergebnissen wurde gezeigt, dass die MeCl-CuCl-CuCl2-Schmelzen eine genügende katalytische Aktivität besitzen und damit eine Alternative zu den mit Feststoffträgern arbeitenden Katalysatoren darstellen. Zur Minderung von Korrosionsproblemen wurden mehrstufige Prozessführungen kritisch diskutiert.

Esta tese apresenta as teorias do cientista cognitivo e antropólogo de Berkeley Terrence Deacon em relação à linguagem e à mente. Para tal, ela inicia caracterizando seu modelo de linguagem enquanto fenômeno originado concomitantemente à intencionalidade e à organização social. A seguir, descreve a associação deaconiana entre tal origem e a emergência de um insight simbólico num cérebro hominídeo, insight este que diz respeito à percepção da estrutura de representação icônica e indicial e a aplicação desta mesma estrutura a signos virtuais e compartilhados. São apresentados, na sequência, os processos de interpretação, da aprendizagem e os mecanismos cognitivos envolvidos na linguagem que o autor destaca, principalmente em relação às críticas que tece à gramática universal inata de Chomsky, ao instinto da linguagem de Pinker e ao não-representacionismo de Maturana, Varela e Gibson. Para apresentar o modelo mental de Deacon, esta tese discute, antes, seu conceito de emergência, com o qual o autor afirma ter resolvido o hard problem da filosofia da mente; a seguir, apresenta as principais considerações sobre os objetos entencionais que Deacon define e reivindica em suas explicações, e introduz sua teoria da informação, que trata a informação como uma restrição a ser locupletada por um significado cognitivamente inferido. A tese então, apresenta, a partir desses conceitos preliminares, a teoria da mente de Deacon que se caracteriza, primordialmente, pela compreensão de como restrições homeodinâmicas propiciam a emergência de restrições morfodinâmicas que, por sua vez, permitem a emergência de restrições teleodinâmicas que, em seu nível mais alto, configuram a subjetividade e a intencionalidade. Deacon dá à emoção um lugar de destaque por expressar teleodinamicamente a incompletude que nos move. Para construir suas teorias, Deacon penetra no debate filosófico sobre teleologia e apresenta seus argumentos sobre como os materialistas eliminativistas, entre os quais inclui Dennett, não conseguem explicar a origem da intencionalidade a partir de seus modelos computacionais do fenômeno mental. A tese conclui que os modelos de linguagem e mente em Deacon enriquecem o debate atual mas são suas teorias de emergência e informação, inéditas e potencialmente revolucionárias, as mais relevantes para a contribuição filosófica do autor. / This thesis presents the theories of the cognitive scientist and Berkeley anthropologist Terrence Deacon in relation to language and mind. To this end, it begins by characterizing his language model as a phenomenon originated concomitantly with intentionality and social organization. It then describes the association between this origin and the emergence of a symbolic insight in a hominid brain, an insight that concerns the perception of the iconic and indicial representation structure and the application of this same structure to virtual and shared signs. Next, the processes of interpretation and learning and the cognitive mechanisms involved in the language, highlighted by the author, are presented, mainly in relation to the critics that weaves to Chomsky's innate universal grammar, Pinker's language instinct and non-representationalism of Maturana, Varela and Gibson. To present Deacon's mental model, this thesis first discusses his concept of emergency, with which he claims to have solved the hard problem of the philosophy of mind; then, introduces his theory of information, which treats information as a constraint to be locuted by a cognitively inferred meaning. The work then presents, from these preliminary concepts, Deacon's theory of mind that is characterized, primarily, by the understanding of how homeodynamic constraints foster the emergence of morphodynamic constraints that, in turn, allow the emergence of teleodynamic constraints that, at their highest level, configure subjectivity and intentionality. Deacon gives emotion a prominent place by teleodynamically expressing the incompleteness that moves us. To construct his theories, Deacon enters the philosophical debate on teleology and presents his arguments on how the eliminativist materialists, among them Dennett, can not explain the origin of intentionality from his computational models of the mental phenomenon. The thesis concludes that the models of language and mind in Deacon enrich the current debate, but its unprecedented and potentially revolutionary theories of emergence and information are the most relevant to the author's philosophical contribution.

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This study discloses the responsibility of social work for the Swedish welfare state respective deacons in the Swedish protestant church, which roll the Swedish protestant church have in the existent welfare and also if deacons experience any expectations and how these expectations in that case are expressed.The aim of this study was to investigate the relationbetween deacons working within the Swedish protestant church and social work, as it appears for professional deacons. The method of investigating the questions raised by the aim of this study has been qualitative analysis of answers derived from six deacons working in different workplaces. The data derived from these interviews was then analysed through the theory of Gösta Esping-Andersen about welfare states and also through background research and earlier science research about the social work within the Swedish protestant church and other social work. The result of the study show that the welfare state in Sweden has the comprehensive responsibility for the citizens. Deacons working within the Swedish protestant church does not have the same responsibility. Instead deacons usually provided the supplementary social work as regarding existential questions. Different conditions, for example laws and regulations is something that is different regarding the social work that deacons and other authorities in the society performs. Our study also shows that sometimes when the official welfare is insufficient the deacons partly can fill up for this. The deacons in our study experience that there are high expectations from the people in society regarding the social work that deacons performs. There are also expectations from other performers of social work in the welfare as well as from the church itself, although these look a little bit different and are not as clear and explicit. The problem with the expectations is that they are not always realistic which depends on relatively bad knowledge about the social work the deacons perform. When the social work that deacons perform is within the church characterized by Christian ethos a result can be that in meeting with other social work a tension arise which leads to challenges for the different performers of social work.

Thesis (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.