Esko Ryökäs

The Marginalisation of Charitable Functions: Confessional Argumentation and the Construction of the Diaconate in a Late Nineteenth-Century Catholic Encyclopaedia

Abstract This article examines how a late nineteenth-century Catholic account of the diaconate was shaped through selective emphasis and omission. Focusing on the 1882 encyclopaedia entry Diakon in the Real-Encyklopädie der christlichen Alterthümer , it treats the text as a case...