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Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR STUDY GUIDE

Adair, Vivienne.  Women of the Burning Bush: The Report of a Survey of Women Ministers in the Presbyterian Church after 25 years of Ordination.  Wellington: The Presbyterian Church, 1991.

Aitchison, Ronnie.  The Ministry Of A Deacon.  Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2003.

Aitchison, Ronald J.  “The Overseas Mission Of The Wesley Deaconess Order: Theological Aberration Or Inspiration?”, an unpublished doctoral thesis submitted to Potchesfroom University, 2003.

Baker, Marcia.    For Others With Love: A Story of Early Sisters and Methodist Deaconesses. Christchurch: Baker Family Publishing, 2007.

Barnett, J. The Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order, (Rev ed). Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1995

Barrow, Shirley-Joy, “Diakonia, The Revolution: The cycle of diaconal ministry in the Methodist Church of New Zealand, Te Hai Weteriana O Aotearoa”, an unpublished report presented to the Methodist Church in 2003.

Booth, Ken.  God’s Never-ending Story, Module 3: The Story Continues.  Christchurch: Theology House, 2004.

Brodd, Sven-Erik.  “The Diaconate. From Ecclesiology to Pastoral Praxis”. Tro & Tanke,  1992:10. 239-273.

Brodd, Sven-Erik.  “Caritas and Diakonia as Perspectives on the Diaconate”. In The Ministry of the Deacon: 2,  Ecclesiological Explorations, edited by Gunnel Borgegard, Olaf Fanuelson, and Christine Hall.  Uppsala: Nordic Ecumenical Council, 2000.

Brown Colin, ed., The New International Dictionary of New Testament of Theology, Vol. 3. Exeter: the Paternoster Press, 1978.

Brown, Rosalind. Being a Deacon Today: Exploring a distinctive ministry in the Church and in the world.    Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2005.

Chambers, W.  Not Self But Others: The Story Of The New Zealand Methodist Deaconesses. Auckland: Wesley Historical Society, 1987.

Clark, David.  Breaking the mould of Christendom: Kingdom community, Diaconal Church and the Liberation of the Laity. Peterborough: Epworth, 2005.

Collins, John.  Deacons And The Church: Making Connections.  England: Gracewing 2002.

Connor, George.  “Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia”. In Equipping the saints. Ordination in Anglicanism Today, edited by Ronald Dowling and David Holeton, 160-165. Dublin: the columba press, 2006.

Cummings, Owen F. Deacons and the Church. New Jersey: Paulist  Press, 2004

Davidson, Allan, Christianity In Aotearoa: A History Of Church And Society . The New Zealand Education for Ministry Board, 1991.

Deaconesses Board, Methodist Church of New Zealand. The Methodist Deaconess Order. W.H.S. (N.Z.) Proceedings, 15 no. 4 Wesley Historical Society (N.Z.), 1957

Dohar, William J.   “Since the pestilence time: pastoral care in the later Middle Ages”. In  A History Of Pastoral Care, edited by Evans, 169-200.  London: Cassell, 2000.

Dowling , Ronald and Holeton, David,  eds. Equipping the Saints. Ordination in Anglicanism Today. Papers from the Sixth International Anglican Liturgical Consultation.  Dublin: the columba press, 2006.

Field, Mark D.  “What is the Ministry of a Deacon”,  an unpublished  Seminary Studies Course Paper, Good Shepherd College – Te Hepara Pai,  New Zealand.

Fitzgerald, Kyriaki Karidoyanes. “The Diaconate in the Contemporary Orthodox Church”.  In The Deacon’s Ministry,   edited by Christine Hall, 149-158.    Herefordshire : Gracewing, 1991

Fry, Ruth. Out of the Silence: Methodist Women of Aotearoa 1822-1985.  New Zealand: Methodist Publishing, 1987.

Gibaut, John St. H. Sequential or Direct Ordination? A Return to the Sources. Cambridge: Grove Books Limited, 2003.

Gibaut, John St. H.,  “Considering the Possibilities of Direct Ordination”. In Equipping the Saints. Ordination in Anglicanism Today. Papers from the Sixth International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, edited by Ronald Dowling and David Holeton,. Dublin: the columba press, 2006.

Gibson, Paul, ed. Anglican ordination rites: The Berkeley Statement: ‘To Equip the Saints’, Findings of the Sixth International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, Berkeley, California, 2001.  Cambridge: Grove Worship Series 168, 2002

Gooley, Anthony,   “Deacons and the Servant Myth”.   The Pastoral Review, October 2007.

Graham, Carole R-M.  “Re-Membering The Past … Re-Shaping The Present: A Study Of The Ordination Of Women As Priests In The Anglican Church Of Aotearoa New Zealand 1977-1990”, a Masters thesis submitted to the Vancouver School of Theology, 1994.

Hallenbeck Edwin, F., ed. The Orders of Ministry: Reflections on Direct Ordination, 1996. Providence, Rhode Island: The North American Association for the Diaconate, 1996.

Hannaford, Robert, “Towards a Theology of the Diaconate”. In The Deacon’s Ministry, edited by Christine Hall, 32- 43. Herefordshire: Gracewing, 1992.

Hartley Ben L. and Van Buren, Paul E.  the Deacon: Ministry through Words of Faith and Acts of Love.  Nashville Tennessee: United Methodist Church, 2000.

Haworth, Geoffrey M.R.  Anglican Deaconesses in New Zealand: The 1960s Revival.  Auckland:  The Anglican Historical Society, Occasional Papers No.2, nd.

Hayler, Peter.  “Shaping World-Facing Ministry: Theological reflection on Industrial Mission as the work of Deacons” In Ministry, The Edward King Institute for Ministry Development, Volume 2, (Spring 2003), pp.3-4.

Kasper, Bishop Dr Walter. “The Deacon offers an ecclesiological view of the present day challenges in the Church and Society”, an unpublished paper delivered to the International Diaconate Centre Study Conference, Brixen, Italy, 1997.

Keating, James. “The Moral Life of the Deacon”. In The Deacon Reader, edited by James Keating, 119-138. N.J. Paulist Press, 2006

Lewis, Glenys. Kept by the Power: Insights and Memories From My Life. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1999.

Lineham, Peter J. and. Davidson Allan K, eds. Transplanted Christianity: Documents Illustrating Aspects Of New Zealand Church History.  Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press,  1987.

Luther, Martin.  Three Treatises, trans. by A W T Steinhauser.  Philadelphia: The Muhlenberg Press, 1947.

McKnight, William.  “ The Diaconate as medius ordo : service in promotion of lay participation”. In The Deacon Reader, 78-98.  N.J. Paulist Press, 2006.

McLennan, Maree. "The Founding of the Order of Deaconesses in Christchurch."  A bachelor of theology thesis submitted to the Auckland Consortium for Theological Education, 1995.

McPartlan, Paul.  “The deacon and gaudium et spes”.  In The Deacon Reader, edited by James Keating, 56-77 . N.J. Paulist Press, 2006

Olson, Jeannine E. Deacons and Deaconesses through the Centuries. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2005.

Osborne, Keenan OFM.  The Permanent Diaconate: Its History and Place in the Sacrament of Orders. N.J.: Paulist Press,  2006.

Piercy, K-M. "Presbyterian Pioneers": The Deaconess Movement, Dunedin, 1900-1920." University of Otago B.A. Hons Research Essay , 2001.

Plater, O. Many Servants: An Introduction to Deacons.  Massachusetts: Cowley Publications, 1991.

Pocock, Peter, “Diakonia, the Diaconate and the Anglican Church Today: A Response to John N. Collins” (unpublished) 2007.

Ross, Michael.  “The deacon: icon of the sign of hope”. In The Deacon Reader, edited by James Keating, 99-118. N.J. Paulist Press, 2006

Schaff, Philip.  Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Vanantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, Homily. http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html (accessed 20/11/07)

Tennant, Margaret.   “Pakeha Deaconesses and the New Zealand Methodist Mission to Maori, 1893-1940”. In The Journal Of Religious History, Vol 23, No.3, (October 1999) pp. 309-326.

The Anglican-Lutheran International Commission. The Diaconate as Ecumenical Opportunity: The Hanover Report.  Opportunity.  London: Anglican Communion Publications, 1996.

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The Church of England.  The Mission and Ministry of the Whole Church: Biblical, theological and contemporary perspectives. London: Church House Publishing,  2007.

World Council of Churches, Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry,  Faith and Order Paper No.111. Geneva, 1982.

Wijngaards, John. Women Deacons in the Early Church: Historical Texts and Contemporary Debates. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2002.

Zizioulas, John D.  Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1985.

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