The Spirit as gift in Acts: the Spirit's empowerment of the early Jesus community
The Holy Spirit, being given as a gift in the opening chapters of Acts, initiates and sustains the early Jesus community, empowering their teaching, unity, meals, sharing of possessions and worship.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Griffiths, John D., The Spirit as gift in Acts : the Spirit's empowerment of the early Jesus community] (2022) (Newton, Jon K.)
[Rezension von: Griffiths, John D., The Spirit as gift in Acts : the Spirit's empowerment of the early Jesus community] (2023) (Lang, Maria B., 1984 -) [Rezension von: Griffiths, John D., The Spirit as gift in Acts : the Spirit's empowerment of the early Jesus community] (2023) (Quinones-Roman, Luis A.) |
| Series/Journal: | Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Ser.
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The Holy Spirit, being given as a gift in the opening chapters of Acts, initiates and sustains the early Jesus community, empowering their teaching, unity, meals, sharing of possessions and worship. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Spirit as Gift in the Previous Research -- 1.1 Gonzalo Haya-Prats -- 1.2 William Shepherd -- 1.3 Max Turner -- 1.4 Craig Keener -- 1.5 Summary -- 2 A Fresh Approach to the Spirit as Gift -- 2.1 The Spirit and the Greco-Roman World -- 2.2 The Spirit and Sociological Models -- 3 Reading Acts -- 1 Methodology -- 1 Sociological Approaches to the New Testament -- 1.1 An Outline of the Social-Scientific Approach -- 1.2 Comparison with Socio-Historical Criticism -- 1.3 Critiques of Sociological Approaches -- 1.4 Implications for this Study -- 2 Sociological Approaches to Gift-Giving in the New Testament -- 2.1 The Context Group and the Taxonomy of Reciprocity -- 2.2 John Barclay's Reconfigured Gift Theory -- 3 Conclusion -- 2 Sociological Approaches to Gift-Giving -- 1 Marcel Mauss and Gift-Giving -- 2 The Exchangist-Structuralist Gift -- 3 The Economistic Gift -- 4 The Impossible Gift -- 5 The Sociability of Gift-Giving -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Gifts in the Greco-Roman World -- 1 Gifts and Sociability in the Greek Literature -- 1.1 Δωρεά in the General-Soldier Relationship -- 1.2 Plutarch and Gift-Giving -- 1.3 Josephus and Gift-Giving -- 1.4 Appian and Gift-Giving -- 1.5 Summary -- 2 Gifts and Sociability in Latin Literature -- 2.1 Livy, Valerius Maximus and Gift-Giving -- 2.2 Cicero and Gift-Giving -- 2.3 Seneca and Gift-Giving -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 Conclusion -- 4 The Summary Statements -- 1 The Translation and Difficult Phrases -- 1.1 The Translation of Acts 2:42-47, 4:32-35, 5:12-16 -- 1.2 Issues with Translation -- 2 Approaching the Summary Statements -- 3 The Spirit and the Summary Statements -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Witnessing, Teaching, Wonders and Joy -- 1 The Testimony of the Apostles -- 2 The Teaching of the Apostles -- 2.1 Teaching and Social Space. |
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| ISBN: | 9004504435 |