Women among the Early Martyrs
1993; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 30; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0424208400011566
ISSN2059-0644
Autores Tópico(s)Religion, Society, and Development
ResumoThe Pentecostal sermon attributed to Peter in Acts announces Joel’s prophecy fulfilled: It shall happen in the last days, says God, that I will pour some of my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your youths shall see visions and your elders shall dream dreams; yes, even on my slaves and slavegirls in those days I will pour some of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. The gift thus overrides sex, rank, and social status; it is often overlooked that the company on whom the Spirit falls in Acts 2 includes, beside the restored Twelve, ‘women and Mary the mother of Jesus and his brothers’, and Acts in this respect agrees with Paul that in Christ ‘there is no Jew nor Greek, there is no slave nor free man, there is no male and female; you are all one person in Christ Jesus.’
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