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The Acts of the Apostles is a compendium of the Christian faith in action. It combines history and theology to illustrate various aspects of the first Church—among them, how Christianity spread after Christ’s ascension and how the Church was established. It provides a detailed view of the life of the early community of Christians in Jerusalem and of the dispersion of the Christians, as well as of...

The usual English title—“Acts of the Apostles”—corresponds to the Latin “Actus” or “Acta Apostolorum” and the Greek “Práxeis Apostolicón”. This is the title invariably given the book from the middle of the second century onwards in all Greek manuscripts, in early translations and in references in the works of the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers. It seems likely, however, that the author did not give it this title but that it received
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