Acts
2:42-47
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- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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- The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary & sermons.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- III.XII.2, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
- Book II, Chapter 17, Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320).
- From the Geneva Notes.
- From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
- From Wesley's Notes.
- From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
- Commentary, Acts 2:42-47, (Easter 4A), Scott Schauf, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2014.
- "From the Daily Mass to the Domestic Mess," Dan Clendenin, Journey with Jesus, 2014.
- "What Makes a Christian Home, Anyway?" John C. Holbert, 2014.
- "Recovering Hope," Alan Brehm, The Waking Dreamer.
- "Re-learning faith after we've lost the faith of our childhood can be one of the most difficult and painful experiences in life. But the only way to recover shattered hopes is to go back to the place where you learned faith in the first place. As we do so, we come to the table and find the presence of the risen Savior."
- Commentary,
Acts 2:42-47, (Easter 4A), Mitzi J. Smith, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2011.
- "Ultimately, it is God who saves and expands the community, but not without our cooperation. God worked in and through people willing to teach and be taught, to believe in, perform and receive signs and wonders, and to create mutual koinonia."
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
- "The Life of the Early Church," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
- "The Utopian Church," Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question, 2011.
- "What does Acts tell us about what the church should look like today? Anything?"
- Commentary,
Acts 2:42-27, Matt Skinner, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2008.
- "It is important to underscore that Acts 2:42-47 describes a community of faith that operates in the power of God's Spirit. The virtues of justice, worship, and mutuality are not accomplishments of extraordinary folk; they are signs of the Spirit within a community of people who understand themselves as united in purpose and identity?not a dispersed collection of individual churchgoers."
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Commentary, Acts 2:42-47, Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.,
The African American Lectionary, 2008.
- "A remixed community accounts for the differences in prosperity, power, and privilege between the members of our community."
-
"Apostolic
Devotion: The Actual Historical Tradition,"
The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with Jesus
Foundation.
- "It began to dawn on those first disciples, and it should dawn on all of us who stand on their shoulders, that 'apostolic devotion' to Jesus entailed a commitment to a holistic way of living and thinking, what today we might call faith and practice, or in fancier parlance the development of a distinctively and comprehensive Christian world view."
- "Hungry Souls," study guide for adults, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Food and Hunger," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
- "Putting Pentecost in Perspective - Part 4 (Acts 2:41-47)," by Robert Deffinbaugh at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
- "The Pentecostal Experience: A Study in Acts 2," by Lehman Strauss at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
- "Pentecost:
Before and After," Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., in Kerux: The
Online Journal of Biblical Theology (Reformed).
- "The blessings of salvation that the New Testament believer enjoys?regeneration, justification and all the rest?flow from and are tied to union with the exalted Christ."
- "Aspekte
Biblischer Theologie dargestellt an der Verwendung von Ps 16 in
Apostelgeschichte 2 und 13," Wolfgang Fenske, Biblica 83, 2002. (Abstract
in English.)
- "The question of whether the OT should be understood from the perspective of the NT or vice versa becomes irrelevant, for from the perspective of appropriating texts what counts is that the reading of one text influences the interpretation of another."
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices.Annotated list of "starting place" articles at ATLAS for this week's texts (includes direct links).
- Beale, G.K., "The
Descent of the Eschatological Temple in the Form of the Spirit at
Pentecost, Part 1," Tyndale Bulletin, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Beale, G.K., "The
Descent of the Eschatological Temple in the Form of the Spirit at
Pentecost, Part 2," Tyndale Bulletin, 2005.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carver, Gary L.,
"Acts 2:42-47," Review and Expositor, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Finger, Reta
Halteman, "Cultural Attitudes in Western Christianity toward the
Community of Goods in Acts 2 and 4," Mennonite Quarterly Review,
2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Gilbert, Gary,
"The List of Nations in Acts 2: Roman Propaganda and the Lukan Response,"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hinson, E. Glenn, "Persistence in Prayer in
Luke-Acts," Review & Expositor, 2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Johnson, Luke Timothy,
"Making Connections: The Material Expression of Friendship in the New
Testament," Interpretation, 2004. (See also,
Friendship, issue focus of
Interpretation, 2004.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lawson, Steven J.,
"The Priority of Biblical Preaching: An Expository Study of Acts
2:42-47," Bibliotheca Sacra, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Lee, Mark,
"An Evangelical Dialogue on Luke, Salvation, and Spirit Baptism,"
Pneuma, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Long, Thomas G.,
"A Night at the Burlesque: Wanderings through the Pentecost Narrative,"
Journal for Preachers, 1991.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Mitchell, Alan C.,
S.J., "The Social Function of Friendship in Acts 2:44-47 and 4:32-37,"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Sterling, Gregory E., "'Athletes
of Virtue': An Analysis of the Summaries in Acts (2:41-47; 4:32-35;
5:12-16)," Journal of Biblical Literature, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Tiede, David L.,
"Expository Article, Acts 2:1-47," Interpretation, 1979.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - van der Horst, Pieter
W.,
"Hellenistic Parallels to the Acts of the Apostles (2.1-47)," Journal
for the Study of the New Testament, 1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - VanderKam, James C.,
"Covenant and Pentecost," Calvin Theological Journal, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Willimon, William H.,
"'Everyone Whom the Lord our God Calls': Acts 2 and the Miracle of Pentecost
Preaching in a Multicultural Context," Journal for Preachers,
2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Beale, G.K., "The
Descent of the Eschatological Temple in the Form of the Spirit at
Pentecost, Part 1," Tyndale Bulletin, 2005.
- Sermons:
- "The Church on This Side of Heaven," Laura Truman, Day 1, 2014.
- Pentecost 8, 25 July 2004, Thomas Bautz, Goettinger Predigten: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
- With Children:
- Worshiping with Children, Easter 4A, Including children in the congregation's worship, using the Revised Common Lectionary, Carolyn C. Brown, 2011
- "The Early Church," children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian Center.
- Acts 2 Word Search, Don Crownover's Bible Puzzles.
- Drama:
- "Message in a Bottle," Nina Wallestad, Dramatic License. Conditions of Use.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art, Acts 2:42, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Hymns and Music:
- Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- At Oremus
Hymnal:
- Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
- Filled with the Spirit's power
- For the bread which you have broken
- In Christ there is no East or West
- Jesus, where'er thy people meet
- Living Lord of love's dominion
- Lord, we hear your word with gladness
- May the grace of Christ our Savior
- O Spirit of the living God
- To the Name of our salvation
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Acts 2:42. The Cyber Hymnal.
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- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Acts
