Traces of De-Escalation or Resolution of Religious Conflict, Coexistence and Cooperation, and Transition and Assimilation in the Acts of the Apostles
This article focuses on the book of Acts, which contains the first systematic account of some strands of the earliest Christian mission. At first sight, the book abounds with conflicts of various kinds and the suffering of Christ-believers that on occasion resulted from their missionary efforts. How...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 90-122 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HC New Testament HD Early Judaism RH Evangelization; Christian media |
| Further subjects: | B
coexistence and cooperation
B de-escalation and resolution of conflict B Religious Conflict B Paul, apostle B transition and assimilation B Acts of the Apostles B earliest Christianity |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the book of Acts, which contains the first systematic account of some strands of the earliest Christian mission. At first sight, the book abounds with conflicts of various kinds and the suffering of Christ-believers that on occasion resulted from their missionary efforts. However, owing to recent theorising about religious conflict, other aspects can also be detected in these accounts of conflict. Amid intensive missionary activities and, at times, serious conflicts, there are not only instances of de-escalation or resolution of conflict but also instances of relatively peaceful coexistence and even cooperation between Jews and Jewish Christ-followers in Jerusalem and in the Jewish diaspora as well as between non-Jews and Christ-believing missionaries. Such coexistence created or at least allowed for a climate that was conducive to transition and cooperation. The article seeks to identify these instances and analyse them in order to understand what factors enabled these more desirable forms of interactions between representatives of different faiths and practices and at what points conflict arose and why. |
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| ISSN: | 2471-4054 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2025.2452449 |
