Possible "Adventure" projects

>>A detailed  Three Worlds study (exegesis) of a unit of any unit of Acts would be a great adventure (trace the topic).  See

How to study a text via Three Worlds

>>A proposal for the overall literary structure of Acts, summarizing proposals and presenting your own. 

>>Any  one of the ten "foci" of the course would be a great adventure (trace the topic):
Kingdom
 church
community
 conflict
 subversion
leadership
 Trinity
 Spirit
 prayer,
miracles. 

>>Taking any one of the conceptual grids  (Trinity, cultural negotiables, set theory,  excluded middle zone, and configurational  knowledge) from  missiologist Paul Hiebert  (see syllabus and class notes) and tracing them throughout Acts

>>Angels in Acts


>>Culture

>>Jerusalem church vs. Antioch Church :

• Don Richardson, "The Hidden Message of Acts"  (chapter  7 in "Eternity in Their Hearts")
• A response/rebuttal to Richardson by Harold Lollar
• Ross Paterson, "The Antioch Factor"

>>Peter as a leader
>>Paul as a leader

The centrality of Steven's sermon: Stephen's sermon and the structure of Luke-Acts by Delbert Wiens


Delebert Wiens

Characteristics of the early church, and implications fot today

The Temple in Acts:

• "The Narrative Function of the Temple in Luke-Acts" byRon C. Fay, Trinity Journal (Fall  2006)   PDF or blog version
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• "Luke, Stephen, and the Temple in Luke-Acts" Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Journal of Bible and Theology August 1, 1987 17: 88-90 Abstract.. Full version in library or library website 

• Did Paul Sin in Submitting to the Temple Ritual?

   
• Redefining Where God Dwells — N.T.Wright

• "In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity" by Oskar Skarsaune