The countercultural meaning of the episkópoi and diakónoi in Philippians 1,1
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https://doi.org/10.15448/0103-314X.2021.1.40870Keywords:
Paul, Episkopos, Diakonos, Countercultural, Roman colonyAbstract
The presence of episcopos and diakonos in the greeting of the letter to the Philippians is strange within the other Pauline letters. There is no consensus among scholars on this. The author proposes a countercultural reading of both terms, in coherence with others, also important in Pauline theology. Especially considering that Philippi is a Roman colony steeped in imperial ideology. Visitors to new colonies (episkopoi) and servants (diakonoi) were collectives known to readers, but Paul intends to subvert the scheme, even presenting himself as a “slave”.
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