Early-church praxis: Selling land and possessions – A socio-historical study of Acts 2:45, 4:32–37

This article attempts to rethink the early church praxis of selling the land and possessions in response to some of the problems the 1st century church were confronted with. Hence, this article attempts to answer the questions: what were the social, economic, and religious factors that led to the se...

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Published in:	Hervormde teologiese studies Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 1 - 7
Main Author:	Hombana, Mphumezi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pretoria African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS 2023 AOSIS (Pty) Ltd University of Pretoria AOSIS
Subjects:	Audiences Christianity Church history Culture early church Economic aspects Economic factors Exploitation Farmers graeco-roman world Hellenistic Inequality Land Landowners luke-acts Political systems poor Possession (Law) possessions Poverty Practice (Philosophy) Praxis Praxis (Philosophy) Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Religion Religious aspects Resources rich Roman civilization Social aspects Social factors Society socio-economic socio-historical south african church Tax reform Taxation South Africa Europe inequality possessions early church socio-historical poor land rich socio-economic Graeco-Roman world poverty South African Church Luke-Acts
ISSN:	0259-9422, 2072-8050, 2072-8050
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