RT Article
T1 The Pharisee Heresy: Circumcision for Gentiles in the Acts of the Apostles
JF New Testament studies
VO 60
IS 1
SP 20
OP 36
A1 Garroway, Joshua D.
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785740288
AB This narrative-critical study of Acts proposes that Luke has deliberately arranged events so that the discussion about circumcising baptised Gentiles is postponed for as long as possible. When the issue does surface, it is raised by a delegation of second-wave Christians from the sect of the Pharisees. These factors combined give the impression that circumcision of Gentiles, a matter long settled by Luke's own day, had never been original, favourable or sanctioned by God or the apostles. By portraying the movement to circumcise Gentiles as belated, extrinsic and pernicious, Luke's representation of difference in the church resembles that of later heresiologists.
K1 Pharisees
K1 heresiology
K1 Circumcision
K1 Timothy
K1 Jerusalem Council
K1 Cornelius
K1 Luke-Acts
DO 10.1017/S0028688513000258