Written by Luke the beloved physician (Col 4:14), Luke-Acts seamlessly connects the life of Jesus to the lives of the early Apostles after the resurrection. The gospel of Luke is about what Jesus ...
In the Bible, the book called the Acts of the Apostles describes this event and how angels, described as ‘men dressed in white’, helped the apostles to understand what was happening ...
A Curious Ending to the Apostolic Letter of Acts 15 ... History, Literature and Society in the Book of Acts is an interesting and valuable overview of some of the chief preoccupations of biblical ...
Criminalization in the Acts of the Apostles lands at an ideal moment. Drawing upon sophisticated engagement with interlocking theories of racism, politics, and criminology alongside careful engagement ...
After that, the living Jesus spent time with the apostles and promised to send the Holy Spirit to them, and ascended back into heaven. Pentecost is the day for Christians to remember the coming of ...
Matthias, whose name means “gift of God”, was the disciple chosen to replace Judas as one of the twelve Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles state that he was also one of the 72 disciples that ...
And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of disease. Matthew 10:1 Jesus expected ...
When Paul planted churches during his missionary journey, he started working backward halfway through it, and Luke tells us in the Acts of the Apostles that he appointed elders in every single church ...
22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who ...
They were commissioned in 1515 by Pope Leo X for the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and depict the lives of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The Cartoons have been on loan to the V&A from His ...
Matthew S. Monnig, S.J., recently completed his doctoral dissertation at Duke University on the Satan in Luke and Acts of the Apostles, considering how Satan reveals Luke's apocalyptic worldview and ...
The Synod on Synodality has raised the question of the role and authority of bishops’ conferences. In 1998, another moment ...