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"Steve Walton collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, focusing on the theological perspective of Acts while considering the book's nature and focus, its portrait of the early Christian communities and their mission in the culturally varied first-century world, and its major theological themes"--

226.6 --- 226.6 Actes des apotres --- 226.6 Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Actes des apotres --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Bible. --- Acts (Book of the New Testament) --- Acts of the Apostles --- Chongdo haengjŏn --- Sado haengjŏn --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Theology.

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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

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This book looks at the Acts of the Apostles through two lenses that highlight the two topics of masculinity and politics. Acts is rich in relevant material, whether this be in the range of such characters as the Ethiopian eunuch, Cornelius, Peter and Paul, or in situations such as Timothy's circumcision and Paul's encounters with Roman rulers in different cities. Engaging Acts from these two distinct but related perspectives illuminates features of this book which are otherwise easily missed. These approaches provide fresh angles to see how men, masculinity, and imperial loyalty were understood, experienced, and constructed in the ancient world and in earliest Christianity.The essays present a range of topics: some engage with Acts as a whole as in Steve Walton's chapter on the way Luke-Acts perceives the Roman Empire, while others focus on particular sections, passages, and even certain figures, such as in an Christopher Stroup's analysis of the circumcision of Timothy. Together, the essays provide a tightly woven and deeply textured analysis of Acts. The dialogue form of essay and response will encourage readers to develop their own critiques of the points raised in the collection as a whole.

Politics in the Bible. --- Bible and politics. --- Masculinity --- Masculinity in the Bible. --- Biblical teaching. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 226.6 --- 226.6 Actes des apotres --- 226.6 Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Actes des apotres --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and the Bible --- Political science in the Bible --- Biblical teaching --- Bible --- Biblia --- Politics in the Bible --- Bible and politics --- Masculinity in the Bible --- Masculinity - Biblical teaching.

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Church history --- Cities and towns --- Religious aspects --- Christianity