The Sprit of Hospitality in Christianity OTSU Yuri The term hospitality has become extremely popular these days. Hospitality is considered important in the tourist industry as it increases customer satisfaction and promotes sales performance. But just what is hospitality? Before we go on using the word casually without fully grasping its meaning, it is fitting to look once again at its roots in Christian and Western thought and in the human spirit itself. By inquiring into the origins of the spirit of hospitality, our discussion necessarily leads us to the parable of the Good Samaritan, for is it not he, who rendered aid to the wayfarer in need without hesitation or thought of personal gain, the one who should be considered the prototype the incarnation of hospitality? 1 The Oxford English Dictionary (Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition 1989) hospitality the act or practice of being 149
16 2005.03 hospitable; the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, with liberality and good will. hospitality guest visitor hospes hospes xenos ξενος 1989 2 3 4 5 6 ξενος, hospes 150
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16 2005.03 NAVES Topical Bible Hospitality 8 11 22 2 14 154
25 34 39 New King Jame s Version (NKJV) Today s English Version (TEV) was a stranger, and ye took me in stranger ξενος 14 12 14 155
16 2005.03 12 13 φιλοξθνό NKJV given to hospitality TEV Share your belongings with you needy 16 2 156
3 2 9 NKJV hospitable TEV he must welcome strangers in his home φιλόξένον 5 10 1 7 8 3 2 157
16 2005.03 NKJV not greedy for money, but hospitable, TEV he must be hospitable and love what is good hospitable φιλοξθνό 13 2 NKJV Do not forget to entertain strangers TEV to welcome strangers in your home 4 9 11 hospitality 158
5 8 stranger NAVES Topical Bible Hospitality 25 34 40 10 10 NAVES Topical Bible 10 25 29 159
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servos servus 24 4 Antonius 250? 356? 19 21 Pachomius 290? 346? Nirasebius 283? 371? 6 Benedictus 480? 547? 25 Regula Sancti Benedicti 73 25 35 53 6:10 5 7 163
16 2005.03 26 Infermarian Almoner Hospitaller Guestmaster 27 1070 1043 1 1096 99 Knights of St. John of Jerusalem 1113 1190 11 28 stranger 164
gastfreundlichkeit hospitalidad hospitalite hospitalita 29 Camino de Compostella 30 10 9 800 400 1993 hospitale Albergue 165
16 2005.03 31 1858 2 11 13 7 16 18 2 25 9 1 21 1993 1991 hospitality The Encyclopedia of Rel gion Macmillan, i 1987 hospitium hospes hospes 166
hospitium A Latin Dictionary Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993 2 1989 p.755 3 2001 p.91 4 1994 p.9 5 1961 p.241 6 253 2002.10 p.6 7 pp.870-1 8 NAVES Topical Bible MOODY PRESS. 1874, pp.576-7 9 1986 p.767 10 11 Manfred Barthel IN WAS WIRKLICH IN DER BIBEL STEHT EconVerlag,Wien-Dusseldorf 1980 1985 p.137 12 1978 p.339 13 1995 p.515 J.K.1980 pp.19-25 14 1996 pp.219-220 15 Oxford,A latin English Dictionary Augusta Taurinorum Torino, Augusta Praetoria Aosta. Augusta Vurdelicorum Augusburg, Auguta Emerida Merida 16 1989 p.31 J.K.1980 pp.212-3 17 p.47 Jeremias, Die Gleichnisse Jesu, p.171 18 1963. 19 1993 p.216 20 1996 pp.219-220 21 1963. 22 James L. Mays Harper s Bible Commentary The Society of Biblical Literature,1988 1988 p.1074 23 3 2001 p.325 24 1994 p.67 167
16 2005.03 25 2000 p.212-5 26 R. J. Unsted Monasteries A. & C. Black. Ltd. 1970, pp.20-24. p.59 Abbot, Prior, Subprior 27 2002, p.12 28 1966 p.9-10 29 hospes hospitor hospitus hospita hospitium hospitiolum hospic hospice 19 hospitalis 14 hospital 16 hostel 13 hostel 17 30 http://www.santiago-compostela.net/ja-cf32html 1996 p.55 100 3 31 1906 1994 168