Word: koinonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into a modern-day setting, the U.S. South. Galatians thus becomes The Letter to the Churches of the Georgia Convention, while 1 Thessalonians is translated as The First Letter to the Selma...
...been "defatalized," and has become the task and responsibility of man alone. Instead of deploring this trend, the church should welcome and assist it by supporting rapid social change. This will mean, Cox warns, a restructuring of its essential tasks: kerygma (proclaiming God's message), diakonia (service) and koinonia (creating a community). In technopolis, the message of the church is to proclaim those secular events and movements "where God's reconciliation is break ing in." Service means to "identify" with this reconciling action...
...principles for this task of translation. Fuchs and Ebeling agree that one basic problem is understanding how language itself not only expressed what the Biblical writers had to say, but also, by the nature of language, limited what they could say. Thus, the peculiar qualities of 1st century koinonia Greek, a rough-hewn language less graceful than the classical tongue of Sophocles, may have prevented St. Paul from expressing all he meant to say. Hermeneutic seeks to analyze the degree to which the Biblical writer's inner meaning was helped or hindered by the cultural instruments available...
...demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during World War II-"holy worldliness," "religionless Christianity," "cheap grace." But sometimes words lose favor when they are used too often; koinonia, from the Greek word for fellowship or communion, has been subject to almost as much misinterpretation as neurosis, and stirs troubled frowns nowadays when it is dropped into the conversation over divinity school coffee cups...
...koinonia cells are turning up all over the U.S. The word is Greek for fellowship, and describes a kind of Protestant do-it-yourself study movement. (See RELIGION...