Possessions in Luke-Acts: A Sociological Perspective. Kraybill, D. B. & Sweetland, D. M. Perspectives in Religious Studies, 10(3):215--239, 1983. 00011
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The role and function of possessions remains a nagging enigma in Luke-Acts studies. This study suggests that the difference in economic perspective in Luke's two-volume work is partially explained by the fact that the Gospel and Acts represent different stages in the career of a social movement. Such a sociological explanation does not resolve all the issues, but it does clarify them and offers a plausible alternate explanation. Luke's Gospel provides glimpses of the rudimentary and enthusiastic phase of a social movement, while the social organization emerging in Acts reflects a secondary stage of institutionalization in the career of the Jesus Movement.
@article{ kraybill_possessions_1983,
  title = {Possessions in Luke-Acts: A Sociological Perspective},
  volume = {10},
  issn = {0093-{531X}},
  shorttitle = {Possessions in Luke-Acts},
  abstract = {The role and function of possessions remains a nagging enigma in Luke-Acts studies.  This study suggests that the difference in economic perspective in Luke's two-volume work is partially explained by the fact that the Gospel and Acts represent different stages in the career of a social movement.  Such a sociological explanation does not resolve all the issues, but it does clarify them and offers a plausible alternate explanation.  Luke's Gospel provides glimpses of the rudimentary and enthusiastic phase of a social movement, while the social organization emerging in Acts reflects a secondary stage of institutionalization in the career of the Jesus Movement.},
  number = {3},
  journal = {Perspectives in Religious Studies},
  author = {Kraybill, Donald B. and Sweetland, Dennis M.},
  year = {1983},
  note = {00011},
  keywords = {Bible. Acts, Bible. Luke, Bible. New Testament --Ethics, Charisma, Community--Biblical teaching, Jesus Christ --Ethics, Property--Biblical teaching, Social ethics, Christian, Social structure, Sociology, Biblical, Wealth--Biblical teaching},
  pages = {215--239}
}

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