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This study contributes to debate about the portraits of Paul in Acts and his epistles by considering Paul's Miletus speech (Acts 20.18b-35) and identifies and compares major themes in Luke and Paul's views of Christian leadership. Comparisons with Jesus' speeches in Luke show how Lukan the speech is and, with 1 Thessalonians, how Pauline it is. The speech calls the Ephesian elders to service after Paul's departure to Jerusalem, focusing on: faithful fulfilment of leadership responsibility; suffering; attitudes to wealth and work; and the death of Jesus. Paul models Christian leadership for the elders. Parallels in Luke highlight his view of Christian leadership - modelled by Jesus and taught to his disciples, and modelled by Paul and taught to the elders. Study of 1 Thessalonians identifies a remarkably similar portrait of Christian leadership. The Miletus speech is close in thought, presentation and vocabulary to an early, indubitably Pauline letter.

Leadership --- Biblical teaching. --- Paul, --- Pavel, --- Pavol, --- Paulus, --- Paulos, --- Pōghos, --- Paweł, --- Pawełm --- Būlus, --- Pablo, --- Paulo, --- Paolo, --- Pál, --- Apostolos Paulos --- Saul, --- القديس بولس الرسول --- بولس، --- 사도바울 --- Bible. --- Thessalonians 1 (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 227*0 --- 227.1*7 --- 227.1*7 Brieven van Paulus aan de Thessalonicenzen --- Brieven van Paulus aan de Thessalonicenzen --- 227*0 Leven van Paulus --- Leven van Paulus --- Biblical teaching --- Paul [Apostle] --- Bible NT. Acts of the Apostles --- Bible NT. Epistles of Paul. `Thessalonians 1-2 --- Bible. N.T. Acts XX, 18-35 --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Bible. N.T. Thessalonians, 1st --- Paul --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint. --- Bible. - N.T. - Acts XX, 18-35 - Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. - N.T. - Thessalonians, 1st - Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Leadership - Biblical teaching. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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This innovative volume focuses on the significance of early Christianity for modern means of addressing poverty, by offering a rigorous study of deprivation and its alleviation in both earliest Christianity and today's world. The contributors seek to present the complex ways in which early Christian ideas and practices relate to modern ideas and practices, and vice versa. In this light, the book covers seven major areas of poverty and its causes, benefaction, patronage, donation, wealth and dehumanization, `the undeserving poor', and responsibility. Each area features an expert in early Christianity in its Jewish and Graeco-Roman settings, paired with an expert in modern strategies for addressing poverty and benefaction; each author engages with the same topic from their respective area of expertise, and responds to their partner's essay. Giving careful attention toboth the continuities and discontinuities between the ancient world and today, the contributors seek to inform and engage church leaders, those working in NGOs concerned with poverty, and all interested in these crucial issues, both Christian and not.

Poverty --- Church history --- RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. --- RELIGION / Christianity / General. --- Poverty (Virtue) --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History of doctrines. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Ancient History (History) --- Biblical Studies - Other --- Christian Education --- Christian Life and Issues --- Church History --- Development Studies --- Early Modern History (History) --- Education - Other --- Education Studies --- Evidence --- General Religion - Other --- History - Other (History) --- History of Education --- History of Education (History) --- History of Religion (History) --- Modern History (History) --- Social History (History) --- World History (History) --- 241.65*5 --- 241.65*5 Theologische ethiek: private eigendom; diefstal; armoede --- Theologische ethiek: private eigendom; diefstal; armoede