The Literary Function of Possessions in Luke-Acts
Author : Luke Timothy Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Law
ISBN :
The Use of the Bible in Christian Ethics
Author : Thomas W. Ogletree
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664227562
Book Description
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.
The Role and Function of Repentance in Luke-Acts
Author : Guy D. Nave
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004126947
Book Description
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)
Scripture and Traditions
Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004167471
Book Description
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.
Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts
Author : Philip Francis Esler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1989-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521388733
Book Description
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.
Stewardship and Almsgiving in Luke's Theology
Author : Kyoung-Jin Kim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567596125
Book Description
This book starts with questions concerning Luke's 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 Luke's 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.
Consumption and Wealth in Luke's Travel Narrative
Author : James A. Metzger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004162615
Book Description
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.
Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts
Author : Joshua W. Jipp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004258000
Book Description
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.
A Theology of the New Testament
Author : George Eldon Ladd
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802806802
Book Description
Ladd's magisterial work on New Testament theology has well served scores of seminary students since 1974. Now this comprehensive, standard evangelical text has been carefully revised by Hagner to include an update of Ladd's survey of the history of the field of New Testament theology, an augmented bibliography, and an entirely new subject index.
Luke's Wealth Ethics
Author : Christopher M. Hays
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783161502699
Book Description
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.
