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The Spirit as Gift in Acts: The Spirit’s Empowerment of the Early Jesus Community: Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series, cartea 47

Autor John D. Griffiths
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2022
What does Luke mean when he describes the Spirit as gift (Acts 2:38)? This study explores the social implications of gift-giving in the Greco-Roman world, arguing that gifts initiate and sustain relationships. Therefore, the description of the Spirit as gift is inherently social, which is shown in the Spirit’s empowerment of the teaching, unity, meals, sharing of possessions and worship of the early Jesus community. The Spirit as gift then leads us to see that the early Jesus community is “the community of the Holy Spirit.”
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004504424
ISBN-10: 9004504427
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series


Notă biografică

John D. Griffiths, Ph.D. (2020), Flinders University, is a Lecturer of Biblical Studies at Alphacrucis College. He has published articles on the Holy Spirit and ecology, including “Wonders in the Heavens Above, Signs on the Earth Below: Pacific Islands Pentecostalism, Climate Change and Acts 2,” (Springer, 2020).

Cuprins

Introduction
1The Spirit as Gift in the Previous Research
1.1Gonzalo Haya-Prats
1.2William H. Shepherd
1.3Max Turner
1.4Craig Keener
1.5Summary
2A Fresh Approach to the Spirit as Gift
2.1The Spirit and the Greco-Roman World
2.2The Spirit and Sociological Models
3Reading Acts

1 Methodology
1Sociological Approaches to the New Testament
1.1An Outline of the Social-Scientific Approach
1.2Comparison with Socio-Historical Criticism
1.3Critiques of Sociological Approaches
1.4Implications for this Study
2Sociological Approaches to Gift-Giving in the New Testament
2.1The Context Group and the Taxonomy of Reciprocity
2.2John M. G. Barclay’s Reconfigured Gift Theory
3Conclusion

2 Sociological Approaches to Gift-Giving
1Marcel Mauss and Gift-Giving
2The Exchangist-Structuralist Gift
3The Economistic Gift
4The Impossible Gift
5The Sociability of Gift-Giving
6Conclusion

3 Gifts in the Greco-Roman World
1Gifts and Sociability in the Greek Literature
1.1Δωρεά in the General-Soldier Relationship
1.2Plutarch and Gift-Giving
1.3Josephus and Gift-Giving
1.4Appian and Gift-Giving
1.5Summary
2Gifts and Sociability in Latin Literature
2.1Livy, Valerius Maximus and Gift-Giving
2.2Cicero and Gift-Giving
2.3Seneca and Gift-Giving
2.4Summary
3Conclusion

4 The Summary Statements
1The Translation and Difficult Phrases
1.1The Translation of Acts 2:42–47, 4:32–35, 5:12–16
1.2Issues with Translation
2Approaching the Summary Statements
3The Spirit and the Summary Statements
4Conclusion

5 Witnessing, Teaching, Wonders and Joy
1The Testimony of the Apostles
2The Teaching of the Apostles
2.1Teaching and Social Space
2.2Teaching in Complementary Couplets
2.3Teaching and the Reinterpretation of the Hebrew Bible
2.4Summary
3Signs and Wonders
4The Great Joy
5Conclusion

6 The Gift of the Spirit and Prayer, Praise and Gratitude
1Prayer
1.1Prayer in the Summary Statements
1.2Prayer and Gratitude
1.3Prayer, Gift-Giving and the Spirit
1.4Summary
2Praising God
2.1Praise and Gratitude
2.2Praise and the Spirit in Acts
2.3Summary
3Conclusion

7 Gift-Giving and the Lukan Jesus
1The Sermon on the Plain
1.1The Golden Rule
1.2Credit and Reward
1.3Divine Repayment
1.4Summary
2Gift-Giving and the Sharing of Meals
3Conclusion

8 The Communal Sharing and Sharing of Meals
1The Descriptions of the Communal Sharing
1.1Shared Property or Shared Access
1.2Communal Sharing as Distribution
1.3Wealth in Acts 3–5
1.4Summary
2The Various Allusions in the Communal Sharing
2.1The Hebrew Bible
2.2The Friendship Tradition and Utopian Ideals
2.3Ancient Associations
2.4Kinship Sharing
2.5Summary
3Shared Meals
4Conclusion

9 The Gift of the Spirit and Communal Sharing
1The Gift of the Spirit and the Communal Sharing
2The Great Grace upon the Community
3The Gift of the Spirit and the Promise of Reward
4Imitation in the Communal Sharing
5The Gift of the Spirit and the Sharing of Meals
6Conclusion

10 The Unity of the Community
1The Gift of the Spirit as Transcending Status
1.1The Joel Quotation in Relation to Gender, Class and Age
1.2The Gift of the Spirit and Regional Identities
1.3The Gift of the Spirit and Ethnic Identities
1.4Summary
2The Unity of the Early Jesus Community
3Sharing all Things
3.1κοινὰ τὰ φίλων in the Primary Sources
3.2The Gift of the Spirit and
3.3Summary
4Conclusion

Conclusion
1Areas of Further Research
2Implications for Pentecostal Pneumatology

Bibliography
Index