Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel
Author : Ndekha, Louis
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
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ISBN : 3863099516
Luke: A Social Identity Commentary
Author : Robert L. Brawley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567669408
Book Description
In this commentary, Robert L. Brawley provides comprehensive coverage of issues and concerns related to Luke from the perspective of social identity. He argues that the Gospel of Luke is strongly concerned with the formation of identity from the very start of the text, which aims at the creation of a socially responsible community in continuity with that community's collective past. Brawley establishes a theoretical framework that focuses his interpretation - ranging from the narrative world and sociological issues to postcolonialism and hierarchies of dominance - and uses these perspectives to provide a clear overview of historical and critical issues related to an understanding of Luke. He then provides a thorough outline of and commentary on the text of the Gospel. Brawley's engagement with the text serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, clergy, and others interested in their own discoveries of the resources of Luke.
Going the Extra Mile
Author : Gunda, Masiiwa R.
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2024-07-22
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ISBN : 3989890123
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Nehanda
Author : Mwale, Nelly
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2024-07-01
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ISBN : 398989000X
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A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke
Author : Xiaoli Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004363114
Book Description
In A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke Xiaoli Yang offers a conversation between the Chinese soul-searching found in Haizi’s (1964–1989) poetry and the gospel of Jesus Christ through Luke’s testimony. It creates a unique contextual poetic lens that appreciates a generation of the Chinese homecoming journey through Haizi’s poetry, and explores its relationship with Jesus Christ. As the dialogical journey, it names four stages of homecoming—roots, vision, journey and arrival. By taking an interdisciplinary approach—literary study, inter-cultural dialogue and comparative theology, Xiaoli Yang convincingly demonstrates that the common language between the poet Haizi and the Lukan Jesus provides a crucial and rich source of data for an ongoing table conversation between culture and faith.
Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke
Author : Pyung Soo Seo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498200559
Book Description
Luke provides valuable clues to an understanding of the religious and political power of the Roman Empire through Jesus's birth and trial accounts. Also, the book analyzes what role Luke's tax-related accounts play in relation to the emperor's authority. This volume presents a new argument: Luke emphasizes Jesus's interaction with tax collectors as a way of displaying his moral authority, seen in his intervening effectively with one of the most hated aspects of the empire, an aspect that the emperor was responsible for and should have dealt with. This analysis helps us examine Luke's portrayal of Jesus's authority with a focus on the titles "benefactor" and "savior." Comparisons and contrasts are to be made between Jesus and the emperor. Thus, this study discusses how Luke elevates Jesus's authority on the basis of his stance toward the emperor.
The Path to Salvation in Luke's Gospel
Author : MiJa Wi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567687406
Book Description
This book investigates Luke's message of salvation in relation to socio-economic issues, and thus concerns salvation of the rich as well as the poor. With a narrative reading of Luke's Gospel built on careful examination of its socio-economic context, it demonstrates that Luke's message of salvation is best understood as: 1) Divine mercy which champions the cause of the poor and redresses the injustice of the world, 2) Its human embodiment, and 3) Divine reward promised to those who enact mercy. Wi argues that Luke's question of 'what must we do?' juxtaposes salvation with 'doing', posing interesting questions with respect to the salvation of the rich. This volume highlights good news to the poor in terms of divine mercy and justice, shows that the reception of divine mercy calls for practices, which embody it, and above all clarifies Luke's notion of salvation of the rich which will happen as participation in the salvation of the poor. Wi's conclusion challenges its readers by asking the question along with Luke's audience: What must we do?
Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor
Author : Katherine Bain
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451479832
Book Description
Moving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed “women’s roles” in the Roman world—discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view—Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that outside of the prescriptive lenses of the upper classes, women were described, in honorary and funerary inscriptions, in terms that mirrored the socioeconomic status of men, suggesting that women’s leadership in social associations—and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well—was even more frequent than has been imagined.
Engaging Economics
Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802864147
Book Description
'Emerging Economics' reveals the economic dimentisons of the theology of the early Jesus movement & explains how this is reflected in the texts of the New Testament & the reception of those texts within the patristic era.
Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research
Author : Paul Elbert
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1620325624
Book Description
Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research VOLUME FOUR FALL 2012 The Journal of Biblical and Pneumatological Research (JBPR) is a new international peer-reviewed academic serial dedicated to narratively and rhetorically minded exegesis of biblical and related texts. Potential topics include theological and pneumatological interpretation, the role of spiritual experience with authorial, canonical, and contemporary contexts, and the contextual activity of Ruach Yahweh, Ruach Elohim, and various identiþcations of the Holy Spirit. JBPR hopes to stimulate new thematic and narrative-critical exploration and discovery in both traditional and under-explored areas of research. CONTENTS Editor's Overview of Volume 4 MARKUS LOSKER--Seeing the Unseeable - Speaking the Unspeakable: From a Kenosis of Exegesis toward a Spiritual Biblical Theology ANDREAS HOECK, S.S.D.--The Johannine Paraclete - Herald of the Eschaton RIKU P. TUPPURAINEN--The Contribution of Socio-Rhetorical Criticism to Spirit-Sensitive Hermeneutics: A Contextual Example - Luke 11:13 LYLE STORY--One Banquet with Many Courses (Luke 14:1-24) PIETER DE VRIES--Ezekiel: Prophet of the Name and Glory of YHWH - The Character of His Book and Several of Its Main Themes MARK SAUCY--How Does the Holy Spirit Change Us? - A Review Essay Review of Elim Hiu, Regulations Concerning Tongues and Prophecy in 1 Corinthians 14.26-40: Relevance beyond the Corinthian Church (M. Fred Haltom) Review of Joseph Peter Becker, Paul's Use of Xa/rij in 2 Corinthians 8-9: An Ontology of Grace (Rebecca Skaggs and Thomas Doyle) Review of Manfred Baumert, Natÿrlich - ÿbernatÿrlich: Charismen entdecken und weiterentwickeln [Natural - Supernatural: Discovering and Developing Spiritual Gifts] (Wolfgang Vondey) Review of Norbert Baumert, Sorgen des Seelsorgers: †bersetzung und Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes [Worries of Pastors: Translation and Interpretation of First Corinthians] (Manfred Baumert and Paul Elbert) Review of Gonzalo Haya-Prats, Empowered Believers: The Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts (Martin Mittelstaadt, Lyle Story, and James Shelton)
