Baptism in the scheme of salvation as understood by St. Luke with special reference to Acts 2:37-3:21
- Authors: Goodyer, Edward Arthur
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Bible -- Commentaries , Baptism , Baptism -- Biblical teaching , Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MTh
- Identifier: vital:1310 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018219
- Description: The aim of this thesis is to investigate what can be discovered from Luke-Acts about early Christian baptism, recognising that the environment in which Luke's tradition developed was both Jewish and Gentile. The thesis begins with a brief survey of the Jewish practice of ritual washings. The ideas and practices which encouraged the formal rite of John the Baptist and the early church are identified and evaluated. The second chapter focuses attention on Acts 2:37-3:21. Baptism is defined in this passage (Ac. 2:38) in the context of the proclamation by Peter (Ac. 2:14-36) and the life of the community, which includes koinonia (Ac. 2:42-47), the performance of a miracle (Ac. 3:1-1 0), and a further proclamation (Ac. 3:12-26). Using the methods of redaktiongeschichte and narratological analyses, the literary unity of Luke-Acts will be shown in the light of the elements of baptism. In the third chapter the different accounts of baptism recorded in Luke-Acts will be analysed and compared in order to determine how the church tradition which Luke represents understood baptism, and what was the significance of the rite and the practice of baptism in the early church. Finally, in order to emphasise the importance in the Greek world of the ideas and example of the moral philosophers, the meaning of terms related to baptism, such as akouo, metanoeo and pisteuo, is examined in the light of both Jewish and Greek concepts. The community life of the baptised expressed also practices and ideas which appear to owe more to the Greek world than the Jewish. These concepts include parrhesia, koinonia, and the way in which Christianity is described by its members and outsiders- Christianoi, hairesis, hodos. Finally the setting of the Christian meetings in the Gentile context is discussed. The conclusion indicated by the evidence is that Christianity was organised in a form which was scarcely distinguishable from a school under a kathegetes. Baptism initiated the believer into a relationship with a teacher. It was the nature of the teacher as well as the content of the teaching which gave to Christianity its uniqueness.
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- Date Issued: 1991
Africa‘s Heritage No. 5: Out of the deep South
- Authors: Tracey, Hugh
- Subjects: Guitar , Boll Weevil Holler , Negro woman of Livingston Alabama , Alan Lomax , Arkansas , Mississippi , Banjo , Mandolin , Fiddles , Bass , Jesse James , Spirituals , Nigger Minstrel bands , Atlantic , Baptism , Anglo-American , European , Southern white , Is there anybody here that love my Jesus , Baptizing scene , Negro congregation , Tyre , Church , Gospel , Swing Low Sweet Chariots , Little David , Transvaal , Natal , Quill , Georgia , Hybrid , Afro-American , Negro , Negro ragtime , Congo , Bantu , Panpipes , Northern Mississippi , Come on boys let‘s go to the ball , Hillbilly , Southern mountain hoedown , Kentucky , Kolwezi , Luba panpipes , Mishiba dance , Work songs , Georgian ports , Brunswick , Join the Band , A gang of Negro convicts , Mississippi Penitentiary , Hoeing song , I be so glad when the sun goes down , Eighteen hammers , Paul Robesons , There aint no hammer on all this mountain that ring like mine boy that ring like mine , Blues
- Language: English
- Type: Sound , Radio broadcast , Music
- Identifier: vital:15101 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008529 , Reel number: BC131
- Description: 5th programme in the ‘Africa‘s Heritage‘ Series with African music in America and Africa, broadcast by the South African Broadcasting Corporation , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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