Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Literary Function Of Possessions In Luke Acts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Literary Function Of Possessions In Luke Acts book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038995390
Author : Thomas W. Ogletree
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664227562
In this book, Thomas Ogletree seeks to establish common ground between biblical understandings and contemporary ethical inquiry. Drawing upon phenomenological investigations, he criticizes and modifies some of the most prominent conceptions of ethics, and moves toward a more coherent and comprehensive ethical theory. Guided by this theory, he critically engages selected biblical treatments of the moral life, placing special emphasis on biblical accounts of eschatology in its import for the ordered life of emerging Christian communities.
Author : Patrick Gray,Gail R. O'Day
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004167476
This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism; the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.
Author : Guy D. Nave
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004126945
This book explores the central function of the concept "repentance" in the narrative structure and implied social world of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, and provides an excellent synthesis and analysis of the usage of "repent" and "repentance" in Classical, Hellenistic, Hellenistic Jewish, and early Christian literature. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Author : Charles B. Puskas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556352355
The conclusion of Luke-Acts is regarded as one of the most important chapters of Luke's two-volume work. Several significant Lukan themes are found in Acts 28, all of which make some contribution to the purpose and aim of the author in writing Luke-Acts: the Gentile mission, the triumph of God's Word, and the relationship of Christianity with Judaism and Rome. Acts 28 contains many historical problems that have been debated for centuries, including the we statements, the figure of Paul in Acts 28, and the abrupt-ending. Puskas compares the conclusion of Acts with other important chapters of Luke-Acts: the introduction of the Gospel, the conclusion of Acts, the defense of Paul chapters, as well as other passages. In this significant chapter of Acts 28 there are still fundamental problems of exegesis that need to be addressed: What is the literary function of Acts 28? What is Luke trying to tell his readers in the text?
Author : David D. M. King
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666733396
No canonical Gospel is more concerned with wealth and poverty than Luke. A centuries-long debate rages over just how revolutionary Luke’s message is. This book seeks to recover Luke’s radical economic message, to place it in its ancient context, and to tease out its prophetic implications for today. Luke has a radical message of good news for the poor and resistance to wealth. God is shown to favor the poor, championing their struggle for justice while condemning the rich and recommending a sweeping disposal of wealth for the benefit of the poor. This represents a distinct break from the ethics of the Roman Empire and a profound challenge to modern economic systems. Generations of interpreters have worked to file down Luke’s sharp edges, from scribes copying ancient manuscripts, to early Christian authors, to contemporary scholars. Such domestication disfigures the gospel, silencing its critique of an economic system whose unremitting drive for profit and economic growth continues to widen the gap between rich and poor while threatening life-altering, environmental change. It is time to reclaim the bracing, prophetic call of Luke’s economic message that warns against the destructive power of wealth and insists on justice for the poor and marginalized.
Author : Joshua W. Jipp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004258006
This study presents a coherent interpretation of the Malta episode by arguing that Acts 28:1-10 narrates a theoxeny, that is, an account of unknowing hospitality to a god which results in the establishment of a fictive kinship relationship between the Maltese barbarians and Paul and his God. In light of the connection between hospitality and piety to the gods in the ancient Mediterranean, Luke ends his second volume in this manner to portray Gentile hospitality as the appropriate response to Paul’s message of God’s salvation -- a response that portrays them as hospitable exemplars within the Lukan narrative and contrasts them with the Roman Jews who reject Paul and his message.
Author : James A. Metzger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004162617
While several recent studies have suggested that the Gospel of Luke recommends generous almsgiving or a relatively benign sharing ethic that mimics existing redistibutive measures in early Roman Palestine, this book argues that a much more subversive reading of the Gospel's wealth and possessions traditions is defensible.
Author : S. John Roth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850756675
Why are the blind, the lame, the poor, and similar characters so prominent in the Gospel of Luke and all but absent in Acts?
Author : Martin William Mittelstadt,Geoffrey W. Sutton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890492
Although history is replete with tales of revenge, Christian forgiveness provides an alternate response. In this volume, Pentecostal scholars from various disciplines offer their vision for forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration. The essayists offer long-overdue Pentecostal perspectives through analysis of contemporary theological issues, personal testimony, and prophetic possibilities for restoration of individual relationships and communities. Though Pentecostals remain committed to Spirit-empowered witness as recorded in Luke-Acts, these scholars embrace a larger Lukan vision of Spirit-initiated inclusivity marked by reconciliation. The consistent refrain calls for forgiveness as an expression of God's love that does not demand justice but rather seeks to promote peace by bringing healing and reconciliation in relationships between people united by one Spirit.
Author : Scott Shauf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110906202
This monograph explores the theology of the Acts of the Apostles while taking seriously the status of the writing as ancient historiography: What does it mean to speak of theology in a historiographical work? How can this theology be apprehended? What does this theology have to do with the overall character of the writing and with how the writing functioned for its original audience? Acts 19 is both, case study and source to generate the answers.
Author : Mark Allan Powell
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413696
This book is designed to provide essential information in a convenient format for anyone beginning the historical study of the Christian Gospels.With clarity and verve, Mark Allan Powell describes the contents and structure of the Gospels, their distinctive characteristics, and their major themes. An introductory chapter surveys the political, religious, and social world of the Gospels, methods of approaching early Christian texts, the genre of the Gospels, and the religious character of these writings. Included also are comments on the Gospels that are not found in the New Testament.Special features: map, illustrations, and more than two dozen special topics provide information that is important for the understanding of the Gospels.
Author : Kyoung-Jin Kim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850758341
This book starts with questions concerning Lukes idea of the relationship between wealth and discipleship. Previous attempts have not succeeded in reconciling the ideas of wealth and poverty with the theme of discipleship in Lukes theology. This failure motivates Kim to investigate a new paradigm, namely stewardship. Reviewing the wide range of material regarding wealth and poverty in Luke-Acts, he concludes that for Luke a proper way for Christians as stewards to use their wealth is almsgiving in the interests of the poor and needy inside and outside the community.
Author : Christopher M. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3161502698
Christopher M. Hays addresses the apparent incongruity in Luke's ethical paraenesis and argues that Luke's Gospel depicts a spectrum of behaviors which actualize the basic principle of renunciation of all. --Book Jacket.
Author : Philip Francis Esler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521388732
In this widely-acclaimed study, Dr Esler makes extensive use of sociology and anthropology to examine the author of Luke Acts' theology as a response to social and political pressures upon the Christian community for whom he was writing. As well as interesting those concerned with recent developments in New Testament scholarship, Esler's book offers a New Testament paradigm for those interested in generating a theology attuned to the social and political realities affecting contemporary Christian congregations.
