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Author: Thomas E. Phillips
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study uses Wolfgang Iser's theories about how reading the Luke-Acts affects the reader's understanding and behaviour relating to the issues of wealth and poverty.
Author: Walter Pilgrim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-10-07
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1725230364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How does the proclamation of good news to the poor in Luke's Gospel relate to wealth and poverty? What does Luke-Acts mean to affluent Christians and churches in our time? In a fresh, systematic way, Professor Pilgrim surveys Old Testament tradition on the poor and describes the Jesus movement as background for understanding Luke-Acts.
Author: James A. Metzger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9004162615
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: David Peter Seccombe
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1666710032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Of all the New Testament writings Luke-Acts focuses particular attention on rich and poor, possessions and poverty. The Poor and Their Possessions is a new edition of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation that has long been out of print. The author’s exploration of Luke’s thinking is of special importance for Christian preachers, so much effort has gone into making it accessible and readable. Who are the poor? Why are they favored? Did Jesus have a program of social reform? Is renunciation of possessions demanded of all Christians? What guidance does Luke give on the use of possessions? Did the early church have a community of possessions? To whom was Luke’s material targeted? What was its purpose? These and other questions find their answers in the book. Besides its clear argument, this book is a treasure store of careful study of some difficult but important passages from Luke and Acts.
Author: Thomas E. Phillips
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0881461652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers a fresh analysis of the ""Acts of the Apostles"". This work surveys contemporary ""Acts"" scholarship on two important topics: the genre of ""Acts"" and issues of wealth and poverty in ""Luke-Acts"". It provides an analysis of the process of interpretation and calls for greater self-awareness among critical readers of ""Acts"".
Author: David D. M. King
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-05-13
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1666728012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Patrick Spencer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2007-04-10
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0567648451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Varying degrees of attention are paid to Jesus' four speeches in the Galilean ministry of the Gospel of Luke. Despite increasing interest in ancient Graeco-Roman rhetoric in biblical studies, few scholars examine the speeches from the lens of ancient rhetorical argument. In addition, with the exception of the inaugural speech in Luke 4.14-30, little attention is afforded to the relevance of the speeches for understanding larger nuances of the narrative discourse and how this affects the hermeneutical appropriation of authorial readers. In contrast, Spencer examines each speech from the context of ancient rhetorical argument and pinpoints various narrative trajectories-as associated with theme, plot, characterization, and topoi-that emerge from the rhetorical texture. In doing so, he shows that the four speeches function as "sign posts" that are integral to guiding the Lukan narrative from the "backwaters" of Galilee to the center of the Roman Empire.
Author: Rachel L. Coleman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 900441634X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Lukan Lens on Wealth and Possessions: A Perspective Shaped by Reversal and Right Response, Rachel Coleman offers a detailed exploration of Luke’s wealth ethic, examining the topic with careful exegesis and literary and theological sensitivity.
Author: Esa J. Autero
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004323201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Reading the Bible Across Contexts Esa Autero offers a fresh perspective on Luke’s poverty texts. This is done through a critical dialogue between an historical reading and empirical readings by two Latin American Bible reading groups.
Author: Christopher M. Hays
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9783161502699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
