Servant leadership revisited : διακονία, masculinity and martyrdom in Mark 10:42–45

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Smit, Peter-Ben A.

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Brill Academic Publishers

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Mark 10:42–45 is a key text for discussions of ‘diakonia’ and the related ministry of ‘deacons’ in the church. This paper uses a gender-critical approach to analyse the text, in the course of which a new exegetical proposal is made. It is argued not only that this text makes a somewhat subversive proposal for leadership, but also that our understanding of it can be furthered by means of masculinities studies

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Servant leadership, Masculinity, Martyrdom, Diakonia, Gospel of Mark, Masculinities studies, Ministry, Gender

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Smit, P.-B. 2018, 'Servant leadership revisited: διακονία, masculinity and martyrdom in Mark 10:42–45', Ecclesiology, vol. 14. no. 3, pp. 284-305.