The Conflicts of Acts 1-8:3 in View of Recent Research on Religious Conflicts in Antiquity, Part One: Theoretical Issues and Contested Domains
In its account of the expansion of the earl/Christian movement from Jerusalem to Rome, the Bcok of Acts includes several instances of conflict. At first g anee these conflicts appear to be of a religious nature, as the Christian message encounters the religions and cultures of the Jewish and Helleni...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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European journal of theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-31 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | In its account of the expansion of the earl/Christian movement from Jerusalem to Rome, the Bcok of Acts includes several instances of conflict. At first g anee these conflicts appear to be of a religious nature, as the Christian message encounters the religions and cultures of the Jewish and Hellenistic Roman world. However, these conflict narratives suggest that other factors were also involved. In Acts 1-8:3 we encounter issues of authority, influence and control over identity. This essay follows a trend in recent research to appreciate that conflict expressed as inter-religious is often, at heart, intra-religious, and that the violence that occurs is often due to non-religious factors. After a brief survey of recent theory, in particular the views of Wendy Mayer, Part One offers a detailed analysis of the contested domains between the parties in the two conflicts of Acts 1-8:3, namely, Acts 1-5 and Acts 6-7 |
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| ISSN: | 0960-2720 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal of theology
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