Salvation in Acts 16: Meaning and missional implication derived from the sociohistorical method

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Salvation in Acts 16: Meaning and missional implication derived from the sociohistorical method
 
Creator Igba, Jacob T. Stoker, Henk G.
 
Subject New Testament; Theology;Missiology Acts 16; African context; salvation; sociohistorical method; mission; apologetics; Greco-Roman
Description In Acts 16:17, a slave girl proclaims: ‘these men are the servants of the Most High God who have come to show a way of salvation!’ The Philippian jailer in Acts 16:30 asks, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ What do they have in common regarding their understanding of the meaning of salvation? How is it similar or different from the understanding of salvation in Africa? Are these in line with the salvation narrative aim of Luke in Acts 16? Through the sociohistorical method, this paper explores the Greco-Roman context of the slave girl and the jailer. In this process, a contextual similarity between the Greco-Roman context and the African context is identified and the impact of these contexts on the understanding of the meaning of salvation is examined. Placed in conversation with the Lukan meaning of salvation in the passage, an alternative meaning of salvation emerges, along with implications for the Greco-Roman and African contexts.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article shows interdisciplinarity by an engagement with a theological concept through the utilisation of the sociohistorical method in generating meaning and understanding of a New Testament text. It navigates the disciplines of New Testament, Biblical Studies, Mission and Apologetics.
 
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Date 2018-09-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Socio-historical; Theological
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Identifier 10.4102/ve.v39i1.1895
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 39, No 1 (2018); 9 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage — Early Christianity —
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Jacob T Igba, Henk G Stoker https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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