Theology of Acts of the Apostles (New Testament Theology) - Softcover

Jervell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052142447X ISBN 13: 9780521424479

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Who are the people of God? Luke's purposes in Acts are to identify the Church, to establish the legitimacy of its gospel and to demonstrate that God was an active force in history. He shows that the communities of Jewish and Gentile Christians are the true heirs of God's promises to Israel. This is a theological interpretation of the history of the Church within history: Luke is an artist, a narrator rather than a systematic theologian, but he writes about the roles of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit and of the Church.

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Book Description:

Who are the people of God? Luke's purposes are to identify the Church, establish the legitimacy of its gospel and demonstrate that God was an active force in history. As narrator rather than a theologian, he writes about the roles of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Church.

From the Back Cover:

This series provides a programmatic survey of the individual writings of the New Testament. It aims to remedy the deficiency of available published material, which has tended to concentrate on historical, textual, grammatical and literary issues at the expense of the theology, or to lose distinctive emphases of individual writings in systematized studies of 'The Theology of Paul' and the like. When complete, the series will cover all the New Testament writings, and will thus provide an attractive and timely range of texts around which courses can be developed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052142447X
• ISBN 13: 9780521424479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160