The Jerusalem council and the theological task

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This article is partly about the Jerusalem Council and partly about hermeneutics, contextualization, and theological method. As I have been reading in the latter three areas recently, I cannot help noticing how often writers make reference to the Jerusalem Council. It sometimes enters their discussion in its pure Acts 15 form, sometimes as an event reconstructed from a combination of sources. Either way, the Council serves as paradigm and precedent for a number of proposals concerning the theologian's task. The proposals themselves are fraught with consequence, since they concern the shape ...

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