A Study on Peter"s Preaching in Acts 2

The start of the early Christian church is recounted in the book of Acts. In Acts 2 (NKJV) shares that after the outpouring of the Spirit of God, over 3,000 believers gather themselves together, where they “held everything in common, shared their resources, and that each person’s needs were met (Acts 2:42, The Message). The following article takes a bird’s eye view that assists us, as social workers, in understanding the importance of community practice. Community calls us to a sense of belonging and inclusion with a group of people. Community also calls us to consider again our shared values and resources. This article grounds us in the Biblical narrative, moves to our social work skills and knowledge base, and then concludes with thoughts that encourage us to address the “wicked problems” by being disruptive forces in the planned change process which is at the heart of community practice.

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The List of Nations in Acts 2: Roman Propaganda and the Lukan Response

Journal of Biblical Literature ◽

10.2307/3268158 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 121 (3) ◽

pp. 497 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gary Gilbert

Keyword(s):

Acts 2

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A POOR MAN'S CHRISTOLOGY

New Testament Studies ◽

10.1017/s0028688598003324 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 332-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

MICHAEL GOULDER

Keyword(s):

1 John ◽

Jewish Christians ◽

Acts 2

The Jerusalem church called itself oι πτωχoι (Gal 2.10), probably from Isa 61.1, and held a prophetic Christology (Acts 3, 7). The Ebionites in Irenaeus and Epiphanius traced their name to Acts 2–5, and held Jesus to have been a prophetic figure, conceived naturally and possessed by the Spirit/‘Christ’ from baptism till before the passion. The same prophetic/possessionist Christology seems to be taught by Jewish Christians opposed by Justin and Ignatius: the ‘docetists’ believed that Christ (not Jesus) seemed to have suffered. It is also opposed by Polycarp, by John (especially in 1 John 4–5), by Paul (dramatically in 1 Cor 12.1–3), and in the pre-Marcan traditions.

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The Spirit in Numbers 11

Pneuma ◽

10.1163/15700747-bja10053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (3-4) ◽

pp. 340-343

Author(s):

Roger D. Cotton

Keyword(s):

Holy Spirit ◽

Pentecostal Theology ◽

The Holy Spirit ◽

Acts 2

Abstract Numbers 11 is a foundational passage for OT pneumatology and supports pentecostal theology and practice. There, God, through Moses, expressed his plan that all believers should be empowered for prophetic ministry by the Holy Spirit. That experience of the seventy elders involved a kind of prophesying that was probably praise and prayer in tongues, as in Acts 2.

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Having Things in Common: Acts 2 and 4

Acts in Practice ◽

10.1163/9789004397293_011 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 97-106

Keyword(s):

Acts 2

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Communism in the Early Church (Acts 2: 44)

The Old and New Testament Student ◽

10.1086/470536 ◽

1890 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 112-112

Keyword(s):

Early Church ◽

Acts 2

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Two-Distance-Primitive Graphs

The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics ◽

10.37236/8890 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Wei Jin ◽

Ci Xuan Wu ◽

Jin Xin Zhou

Keyword(s):

Bipartite Graph ◽

Complete Bipartite Graph ◽

Complete Classification ◽

Second Step ◽

Transitive Graph ◽

Vertex Transitive ◽

Vertex Transitive Graph ◽

Cyclic Graph ◽

Acts 2

A 2-distance-primitive graph is a vertex-transitive graph whose vertex stabilizer is primitive on both the first step and the second step neighborhoods. Let $\Gamma$ be such a graph. This paper shows that either $\Gamma$ is a cyclic graph, or $\Gamma$ is a complete bipartite graph, or $\Gamma$ has girth at most $4$ and the vertex stabilizer acts faithfully on both the first step and the second step neighborhoods. Also a complete classification is given of such graphs satisfying that the vertex stabilizer acts $2$-transitively on the second step neighborhood. Finally, we determine the unique 2-distance-primitive graph which is locally cyclic.

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