Keener, Craig S.2019-09-252019-09-252016-04-0820080118-8534http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/236715"Although some observers in recent centuries have misunderstood Christianity as a European movement, century observes could not have easily imagined this misconception. Instead, they viewed Palestine (and its larger province of Syria) and what we call Asia Minor as parts of Asia. Moreover, the one scene in which Acts could possibly describe the entrance of the gospel into Europe shows it originating from western Asia. The traditional division of continents has always been arbitrary (Greeks counted themselves as in Europe and distinguished themselves from "Asian" peoples to their east and later to their south). Nevertheless, the division appeared significant to the many people in the Roman Empire who accepted Greek categories, and Greeks treated the Troad as the traditional entry point into Asia (the world to the west of the Greek homeland)."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderAsiaEuropePostcolonialMissionActs 16:8-10ChristianityIntercultural and contextual theologiesPostcolonial theologiesBiblical TheologyBible (texts, commentaries)New TestamentArticle