Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ACTS
- Ascension
- Feast of Pentecost
- Jewish significance: holy
spirit coming to jews
New significance for
early church: peter
perches 1st sermon
- Reverses the effects
of Passover
- Tells the story of the church`s
beginning in jerusalem & its spread
throughout the world
- written by luke
- Theological account
- gives readers a way to
argue that this new
movement (the church)
does not represent a
direct threat to roman
empire
- Last days
- special
presence of
god resides
- Baptism of Cornelius
- Turning
point
- b/c it authorizes the
church`s mission to
gentiles
- Peter shocked
that gods spirit
could inhabit
gentiles
- Jerusalem conference
- paul & barnabas
discuss whether
gentiles had to
convert to judaism to
in the church
- Gentiles should remain
Gentiles and not have to
convert to Judaism
- holy spirit
- Saul`s Violent Call Theophany
- changes his life &
he is now Paul
- Relates back to the end of Luke
- Ending: paul is arrested & sent to
Rome for trial, under house arrest
- bringing gentiles into church was an act of god
- Ignorance is over. Judgement will come,
Jesus is risen and God is known