Countervailing missionary forces : empire and church in Acts

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dc.contributor.authorPunt, Jeremyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-21T09:09:17Z
dc.date.available2018-02-21T09:09:17Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionCITATION: Punt, J. 2010. Countervailing missionary forces : empire and church in Acts. Scriptura, 103:45-59, doi:10.7833/103-0-587.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://scriptura.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractScholarly consensus has long held that Acts was intended as some sort of Christian apology to the ruling authorities, serving to allay the fears of the imperial forces and their collaborators that the followers of Jesus posed no political threat. This scholarly edifice has been eroded somewhat, among others by the position that the source and direction of the apology were the reverse of the consensus position – a promotion of the imperial regime among followers of Jesus. Given these and other understandings of the imperial setting portrayed in Acts, the relationship between Acts and Empire clearly remains an unfinished and important discussion. Such interpretative positions regarding the relationship between Acts and Empire are briefly reviewed amidst first-century conceptions and positions of power, before highlighting a number of instances in Acts where this relationship comes to a head, suggesting also four possible avenues for further investigation.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/587
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent15 pages
dc.identifier.citationPunt, J. 2010. Countervailing missionary forces : empire and church in Acts. Scriptura, 103:45-59, doi:10.7833/103-0-587en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2305-445X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0254-1807 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.7833/103-0-587
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103161
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Faculty of Theologyen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectRome -- Historyen_ZA
dc.subjectBible. Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_ZA
dc.subjectMissions -- Theoryen_ZA
dc.titleCountervailing missionary forces : empire and church in Actsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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