Communal discernment in the early church
This article investigates the often-neglected communal dimension of discernment by focusing on the way in which the early church responded to the controversy about the circumcision for gentiles in Acts 15. It analyses how discernment takes place mostly in times of ambiguity and crisis in which a fa...
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Main Author: | Pieter G. R. de Villiers |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2013-06-01
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Series: | Acta Theologica |
Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2576 |
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