That processis also reflexive in that people evoke, provoke, and resonate with each other in ways thatare both enabled and constrained by their own histories of relating. (p. 359)In Acts, Stephen was a Greek convert "chosen to assist the early church in serving the Greek speaking widows" ...
The Ministry of Women in the Early Church. Collegeville, MI: Liturgical Press, 1976. Google Scholar Gryson, R. Dix ans de recherches sur les origines du célibat ecclésiastique. Revue Theologique de Louvain 11 (1980): 157–185. Google Scholar Guarnieri, R. (Ed.) Il “Miroir des ...
The Early Church 儲存 what is the kerygma 點擊卡片即可翻轉 👆 - (Greek word) 'preaching'/proclamation' - an announcement rather than a set of teachings/doctrines - luke 4:18 - "he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
Saint Simeon received the divine Child in his arms,1 and giving thanks to God, he spoke the words repeated by the Church each evening at Vespers: “Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared ...
They are also mentioned in 2:15. They are sometimes associated with Nicolaus, one of the seven original deacons in the church in Jerusalem according to Acts 6:5. The early church father Irenaeus connected them to Nicolaus and further described them as an immoral Gnostic sect (Adv. Haer. ...
Without this threefold ministry, Ignatius said, a group cannot be called a church. Here are examples of what early Christian writers had to say on the subject of bishops, priests, and deacons: Ignatius of Antioch “Now, therefore, it has been my privilege to see you in the person of ...
Peter, one of the twelve apostles and a leading figure in the early church, speaks with authority. His response is to a crowd gathered during Pentecost, a Jewish festival. This moment follows the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which fulfills Jesus' promise in Acts 1:8. Peter's role as ...
If, on the other hand, the sacramental forgiveness of sins was what Fundamentalists term it, an “invention,” and if it was something foisted upon the young Church by ecclesiastical or political leaders, we’d expect to find records of protest. In fact, in early Christian writings we ...
The Message of Acts Replaces the book, The Spirit, the Church & the World, which received a Christianity Today 1991 Readers' Choice Award The Spirit moves the church into the world. That is how it has always been since the day of Pentecost when the Spirit b... J Stott 被引量: 3发表...
He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil. He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a ...