Browsing by Subject "Acts"
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A critical evaluation of the nature of the gift of tongues : a patristic perspective
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2023)Contemporary scholarship on Acts and 1 Corinthians often argues that passages that deal with the gift of tongues allow and even advocate for the gift of tongues as a devotional or prayer language. The works of the church ... -
An historical-exegetical examination of the communication of God as Creator in Acts 17:24
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)The Areopagus speech of Acts provides a helpful study of how Paul (as recorded by Luke) both engaged and confronted the contemporary culture of his day in order to present the message of Christianity to his hearers in ... -
The meaning of “orderly” (kathexēs) account in Luke 1:3
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2017)Luke, in the preface of his gospel, says that he is going to write an “orderly” (καθεξῆς, Luke 1:3) account. However, scholars have no consensus on the writing order of Luke’s gospel. As what kind of order Luke uses may ... -
The Spirit of generosity: a new economic dispensation in the wake of Pentecost?
(Pieter De Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)The nature of the economic formation in the Early Church has been widely debated through the centuries. In his work, Das Kapital, Karl Marx quotes Acts 2:44-45, and even supplies these verses as his reason for hating God. ...