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The person in charge of all its affairs was the oikonomos. [3] [4] The oikos was composed of a nuclear family as well as extended family members such as grandparents or unmarried female relatives. [4] The husband of the core nuclear family was generally the oikonomos. [4] [5] The ancient Greek world was a patrilocal society.
Oeconomicus comes from the Ancient Greek words oikos for home or house and nemein which means management, [1] literally translated to 'household management'. It is one of the earliest works on economics in its original sense of household management, and a significant source for the social and intellectual history of Classical Athens .
[3] [verification needed] According to Lossky , theology (literally, "words about God" or "teaching about God") was concerned with all that pertains to God alone, in himself, i.e. the teaching on the Trinity , the divine attributes , and so on; but it was not concerned with anything pertaining to the creation or the redemption.
Oikonomos was a household manager in Ancient Greece, or a treasurer of an organization. It may also refer to: The etymology of the word economy; Oikonomos Tsaritsani F.C., a Greek football club; Oikonomos, a photograph series by Edson Chagas
The office is defined as "the manager of household or of household affairs" or, in this context, "treasurer". [1] The King James Version uses the translation "chamberlain", while the New International Version uses "director of public works". A person named Erastus mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:20 and Acts 19:22 is often taken to be the same person.
Exokatakoiloi (Greek: ἐξωκατάκοιλοι), latinized as Exocatacœli, was a term attested since the 11th century for the principal officials of the Patriarch of Constantinople or a bishop of the Eastern Church: these were the steward or oikonomos (the patriarchal official was prefixed with megas, "grand"), the treasurer or [megas] sakellarios, the sacristan or [megas] skeuophylax, the ...
Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969, [1] covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books (see Catholic Bible) and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.
Aristotle also established a difference between economics and chrematistics that would be foundational in medieval thought. [2] For Aristotle, the accumulation of money itself is an unnatural activity that dehumanizes those who practice it.