[B-Greek] OIKOS as an extended "family"
jgibson000 at comcast.net
jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon May 2 21:17:03 EDT 2011
On 5/2/2011 8:03 PM, Jeffrey T. Requadt wrote:
> I have been doing a little research into a church growth philosophy, and
> they make a big claim about OIKOS as the Greek word for "extended family"
> but ALSO denoting "8-15 people in our relational world"-as in co-workers,
> close friends, classmates. I have been trying to look in BDAG and LSJ and
> find no support for OIKOS as "close relational world" outside of actual
> genetic closeness or the ones who live in your household. I.e., not
> "extended household" but rather simply "household" (with reference to people
> rather than buildings). Is anyone aware of contexts in which such an
> "relational world" meaning would make the best sense? I have a feeling I
> should relegate this one to the N.T. Greek Urban Legends. But I'm willing to
> hear evidence otherwise.
>
>
The household of God is not one based on where one lives or blood
kinship, is it?
Jeffrey
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