Philip and the Eunuch (Acts 8,26-40)
Approach from the theory of social identity
Abstract
The convergence of exegesis and social sciences provides new tools for understanding texts that, viewed solely from a philological or literary perspective, become detached from their context and the values ??present within it. Social identity theory, in its formulation of identity markers for groups that bisect each other and for subgroups within them, is the lens proposed in this article for interpreting the story of Philip's evangelization and the request for the baptism of a eunuch in the Acts of the Apostles. A meticulous textual analysis leads to a perspective from social psychology that questions the obstacles to belonging to the community of Jesus, both then and now.
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