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As such, one of the focuses of this study is not primarily on the significance of the Ascension a... more As such, one of the focuses of this study is not primarily on the significance of the Ascension and Pentecost events in the narrative of Acts 1-2.27 While these two events have inspired theological propositions (especially on Jesus and his ascension, and the Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from many modem Christian circles, our aim is to understand how the apostles (as main characters) are presented by the author in a narrative where two significant events take place. Social-scientific criticism will help us attain this objective. 4. Social-scientific criticism ... also offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of ourselves as readers of the text.... Tle social sciences help us to recognize that our acts of interpretation are not neutral. 9OV. Turner, The Ritual Process, p. xi. 91FL D. Abraham's foreword in V. Tumer, The Ritual Process, p. xL Estrada: From Followers To Leaders 27 with each other as class, rank, wealth, or social status are broken down even as they all submit to the ritual elders and experience the equality of sharing a common predicament. 92 This liminality-communitas stage serves as an important stage in the process of the rite of passage. It is when, according to Turner, the subject experiences the "limbo of ,, 93 statuslessness. The individual or group going through the process is "betwixt and between7 the status or role that has been designated. 94 This description is very helpffil if we are to understand the function of the author's report about the events which happened with the apostles between the time they were commissioned by Jesus in Acts 1: 8 and the confirmation of their new status by the baptism of the Spirit in 2: 1-4. But why do we find van Gennep's theoretical framework and Turner's expansion of the same helpfiil in our exegesis of Acts 1-2? The answer lies in the plausibility of Mark MeVann's study as he attempted to use the model on Jesus' status transformation in the gospel of Luke. McVann called his model the "Rituals of Status Transformation" (altematively RST). 1.2.3 The Rituals ofStatus Transformation by Mark McVann. Mark McVann's study is found under the category of "social dynamics" in the 1991 project of the Context Group entitled Yhe Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. 95
As such, one of the focuses of this study is not primarily on the significance of the Ascension a... more As such, one of the focuses of this study is not primarily on the significance of the Ascension and Pentecost events in the narrative of Acts 1-2.27 While these two events have inspired theological propositions (especially on Jesus and his ascension, and the Spirit on the day of Pentecost) from many modem Christian circles, our aim is to understand how the apostles (as main characters) are presented by the author in a narrative where two significant events take place. Social-scientific criticism will help us attain this objective. 4. Social-scientific criticism ... also offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of ourselves as readers of the text.... Tle social sciences help us to recognize that our acts of interpretation are not neutral. 9OV. Turner, The Ritual Process, p. xi. 91FL D. Abraham's foreword in V. Tumer, The Ritual Process, p. xL Estrada: From Followers To Leaders 27 with each other as class, rank, wealth, or social status are broken down even as they all submit to the ritual elders and experience the equality of sharing a common predicament. 92 This liminality-communitas stage serves as an important stage in the process of the rite of passage. It is when, according to Turner, the subject experiences the "limbo of ,, 93 statuslessness. The individual or group going through the process is "betwixt and between7 the status or role that has been designated. 94 This description is very helpffil if we are to understand the function of the author's report about the events which happened with the apostles between the time they were commissioned by Jesus in Acts 1: 8 and the confirmation of their new status by the baptism of the Spirit in 2: 1-4. But why do we find van Gennep's theoretical framework and Turner's expansion of the same helpfiil in our exegesis of Acts 1-2? The answer lies in the plausibility of Mark MeVann's study as he attempted to use the model on Jesus' status transformation in the gospel of Luke. McVann called his model the "Rituals of Status Transformation" (altematively RST). 1.2.3 The Rituals ofStatus Transformation by Mark McVann. Mark McVann's study is found under the category of "social dynamics" in the 1991 project of the Context Group entitled Yhe Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. 95