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Acts

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

Willie James Jennings

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Acts

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

Willie James Jennings

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In this new commentary for the Belief series, award-winning author and theologian Willie James Jennings explores the relevance of the book of Acts for the struggles of today. While some see Acts as the story of the founding of the Christian church, Jennings argues that it is so much more, depicting revolutionlife in the disrupting presence of the Spirit of God. According to Jennings, Acts is like Genesis, revealing a God who is moving over the land, "putting into place a holy repetition that speaks of the willingness of God to invade our every day and our every moment." He reminds us that Acts took place in a time of Empire, when the people were caught between diaspora Israel and the Empire of Rome. The spirit of God intervened, offering new life to both. Jennings shows that Acts teaches how people of faith can yield to the Spirit to overcome the divisions of our present world.

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Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781611648058
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Commentary
Index of Subjects
abandonment, 179
Abraham, 9, 28, 70–71
Achan, 52–53
Acosta, José de, 77–78
action/actions, 133
direct, 205
divine/God as active, 43, 62, 77
of joining, 254–57
of the many (crowds), 43
of the Spirit, 128
Acts, book of, xvii, 1–12, 44, 253–57
addiction
for control of bodies, 193
discipleship and, 160
to power, 79, 81
to prisons/incarceration, 125–26, 234
Aeneas, 99
aesthetics, 12
Agabus, 124–25, 197
agency, 133, 160
as complex, 160
divine, 2
human, 2, 113
of the Spirit, 11, 133
agrarian cultures/societies, 65, 194
Agrippa. See Herod Agrippa I; Herod Agrippa II
alignment, 140
allegiance tests, 156
almsgiving, 40, 196
America, United States of. See United States
Amerindians, 177
Ananias and Sapphira, 52–53, 57, 59, 78, 181, 215
Ananias of Damascus, 94–95, 98–99, 204
Ananias the high priest, 212
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 83, 85
Anderson, Ray, 24–25
angels, 62, 70, 104, 109, 127–29, 208, 234
animals, 101, 145, 148, 178, 248–49, 251
clean and unclean, 106–7, 111
Antioch in Syria, 121–25
Barnabas sent to, 122–23
founding of church in, 121–25
Gentiles, witne...

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