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Community and Self Definition in the Book of Acts - A Study of Early Christianity's Strategic Response to the World (Hardcover)
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Community and Self Definition in the Book of Acts - A Study of Early Christianity's Strategic Response to the World (Hardcover)
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This work examines early Christian self-definition and response to
the world, according to the book of Acts. The author argues that
early Christian self-definition and mission are intertwined. In
other words, early Christian identity was at the same time the
nascent faith's response to the world of paganism and Judaism. This
book examines the historiography of Acts, the history of
Redemption, the socio-ethnic and theological dimensions of earliest
Christian self-definition, and the concepts of conversion, identity
and mission. The work's specific contribution lies in its
exploitation of Luke's distinctive use of the conversion of Saul of
Tarsus, given its paradigmatic function in the Acts narrative, to
""legitimize"" a new Christian self for the early Christians, set
in critical relation to the drama of their (Jewish) heritage. The
author submits that this posture of the world is determined by
Luke's understanding of the experience of God's new redemption in
Jesus as the defining factor in the identity of Christians.
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