Public Theology' in Luke-Acts: The Witness of the Gospel to Powers and Authorities
This study surveys the numerous and diverse powers and authorities to which the gospel is addressed in Luke-Acts, including major Jewish institutions and officials, Herodian rulers, Roman military officers, Greco-Roman officials, diverse officials, and pagan cults and supernatural powers. Well over...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-252 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lucan writings
/ Power
/ Ruler
/ Office-holder
/ Paganism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CG Christianity and Politics HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Luke
B powers and authorities B Acts B New Testament |
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| Summary: | This study surveys the numerous and diverse powers and authorities to which the gospel is addressed in Luke-Acts, including major Jewish institutions and officials, Herodian rulers, Roman military officers, Greco-Roman officials, diverse officials, and pagan cults and supernatural powers. Well over half the references to authorities in Luke-Acts occur nowhere else in the New Testament. The frequent and diverse references to powers defend Christianity in a preliminary and obvious way from charges of political sedition. In a broader and more important way, however, they redefine power itself according to the standard of the gospel. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688515000466 |