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A New Way of Life: The Challenge of Cultural Witness in the Early Jesus Movement
Religions, 2023 This article portrays innovative and distinct features of the Christ groups of the first decades with the underlying premise that the lived reality of the early Christian communities has the potential to inspire present-day churches in Europe when they ...
Benjamin Schliesser
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Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement
Les platonismes de l'Antiquité Tardive, 2018 exaly +4 more sources
Sheila E. McGinn, "The Jesus Movement and the World of the Early Church"
Gerión, 2015 José Gómez Galán
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Jerusalem as the Central Place for Paul and Acts
Religions, 2023 In Galatians 1–2, Paul mentions several times that the apostles’ leadership is situated in Jerusalem. In Gal 2:1–2, he even designates it simply as “Jerusalem”.
Eyal Regev
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Using theories in medical anthropology, especially the ideas inspired by Hector Avalos and George Foster, the study explains three activities associated with the early Christian healthcare system: (1) touching infectious people, (2) hospitality towards ...
Zorodzai Dube
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ACTS: INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
Acta Theologica, 2021 Although early Judaism was a diverse movement, the vast majority of Jews at the time would have agreed on a set of core convictions, including the persuasion that non-Jews could not simply join the people of Israel as non-Jews.
C. Stenschke
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A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 The parables of Jesus have historically been attributed with a plethora of interpretations. The first hearers of the parables of Jesus had native (emic) knowledge of the social realities embedded in the parables told by Jesus, that is, cultural scripts ...
Charel D. du Toit
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An Indigenous Force of Pentecostalism in Africa: Indigenous Knowledge System Approach to Decolonization [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 Pentecostalism in Africa has many expressions, types, and shadows contributing to the challenge of categorisations in the movement. There are some forms of Pentecostalism in Africa that resemble the American context in terms of theology and practice ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Poverty in the first-century Galilee
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 In the Ancient world poverty was a visible and common phenomenon. According to estimations 9 out of 10 persons lived close to the subsistence level or below it. There was no middle class. The state did not show much concern for the poor.
Sakari Häkkinen
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2002 The essay represents the author's inaugural lecture held on 7 December 2001 as a professor at the Department of the Study of Religion. The essay is partly a summary of the author's recently published monograph En religion bliver til, partly an ...
Per Bilde
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