the oikonomia
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
household management · management of the city's finances · oikonomia · the dispensation · the disposition · the divine disposition
spoken of as
2 expressionsHousehold and civic management“oikonomia”1 mention
Memorabilia (Greek)
Would she not be richer if she had a larger revenue?
Oikonomia“divine economy”1 mention
Adversus Praxean (Latin)
For, being ignorant that from the beginning the whole order of the divine disposition ran its course through the Son, they believe the Father himself to have been seen and met with and to have wrought, and to have suffered thirst and hunger (against the prophet who says, "The eternal God shall neither thirst nor hunger at all" — how much less shall he die or be buried?
in the texts
Adversus Praxean
The arrangement by which the one God is Father, Son, and Spirit.
So the trinity, running down from the Father through joined and connected stages, is no obstacle to the monarchy, while it preserves the standing of the oikonomia.
For the simple folk — not to call them the unwise and the unlearned, who are always the greater part of believers — since the very rule of faith brings them over from the many gods of the world to the one and true God, not understanding that he is one indeed, yet to be believed together with his own oikonomia, take fright at the oikonomia.
We, however, always, and now more than ever, as better instructed by the Paraclete, the very guide into all truth, believe in one God indeed, yet under this dispensation which we call the oikonomia, so that of the one God there is also a Son, his own Word, who proceeded from him, through whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made.
Memorabilia
The practical knowledge of income, expenditure, defense, and resources required to manage a household or a city, examined at length in Socrates's interrogation of Glaucon.
Would she not be richer if she had a larger revenue?
Certainly not, exclaimed Glaucon, I haven’t gone into that.
Oh, then we will postpone the business of making the city richer;