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Shelly Matthews, Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire
I continue my series on early Christian history.\xa0 The New Testament writing,\xa0Acts of the Apostles, has functioned as the earliest history of the church.\xa0\xa0 But at most, it is "idealized history." \xa0\xa0Shelly Matthews\xa0of Brite Divinity School speaks about the rhetorical strategy of\xa0Acts\xa0in her new book,\xa0The Acts of the Apostles:\xa0 Taming the Tongues of Fire\xa0(Amazon).\xa0 She speaks with me on\xa0Religion For Life\xa0about how the author of\xa0Acts\xa0idealized Paul and tamed the egalitarian Jesus movement to make it more palatable to the elite reader.