出版社：Regent University School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship
摘要：This paper is an inter-textual analysis of the Acts of the Apostles in a meta¬phorical context, using Morgan’s contemporary cybernetic metaphor of autopoiesis. The paper examines ecclesiastical communications and consciousness in the context of a self-referential autopoietic social system. Further, the recursive communication continuum of kerygmic and prophetic utterances in the Acts of the Apostles is categorized through inter-text and meta-text analyses. The representative elemental features of autopoietic organization such as self-renewing and self-creating structuration, self-referencing environment, internally determined social practices, simultaneously created community norms, transformative symbolisms, and a unified organizational identity are also examined and applied to the early church. Further, the benefits of autopoietic organizational structure for the early church in a persecutive political environment are explicated with ramifications for the sustainability of the church in modern times
