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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Gospel of Luke"”.
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The Narrative Function(s) of Evil Spirits in the Gospel of Luke
This study conducts a comprehensive investigation of the narrative function(s) of evil spirits as dominant characters in Luke’s Gospel. In addressing this issue, this work adopts a literary reading of character within a broader narrative-critical model of the textual, symbolic, and real worlds. The …
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Figuring Jesus : the power of rhetorical figures of speech in the Gospel of Luke.
This dissertation examines Luke's use of rhetorical figures of speech on the lips of Jesus as a means of persuading his audience to accept a role-reversing message that challenged the social, religious, economic and political systems in the Roman Empire. A figure of speech is the use of either …
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Greco-Roman friendship in the Gospel according to Luke.
The Gospel of Luke contains more references to friendship than does any other work in the New Testament. This dissertation analyzes those references to friendship in light of Greco-Roman discourse on the subject in order to attain a wholistic understanding of friendship in the Gospel of Luke. It …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
Using the theory of the twentieth century Russian literary scholar and linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, and what implications this would have in assessing the …
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Reading Reverence: Literate Practice in Ambrose of Milan's Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam
Ambrose of Milan has long been heralded as the political mind behind the dramatic change in power play between the Church and the imperial seat of Late Roman government. However, after years of producing text, championing the cause against pagan strongholds in Roman culture, and instructing the …
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According to Luke: Redefining Authorial Intent in Literary Theory
… the unconscious and unintended social elements of a text. To that end, I discuss relevant aspects of Cultural Studies including ideology; microculture, and macro-culture while exploring how these elements relate to literature. Through examining of the Gospel of Luke, I demonstrate that intention …
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The Emotion of Joy and the Rhetoric of Reversal in Luke-Acts: A Socio-Rhetorical Study
… seeks to cover the entire joy theme in Luke-Acts. The Gospel of Luke has been called the ‘gospel of joy’, and the joy theme has been recognized in Acts. Although the joy theme is clearly present in Luke-Acts, it has received relatively little attention in New Testament scholarship. This …
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Testing the Spirits: A Biblical Assessment of the Islamic Jibril
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the nature and character of the Islamic representations of Jibril by means of biblically derived criteria for identifying spiritual beings and by comparing the representations of the Islamic Jibril with the representations of the biblical Gabriel. …
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Luke and the Law: A Defence of Christian Law-Observance
A majority of scholars over the last century and a half have characterized the discussion of the Law of Moses in the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles as ‘inconsistent’. These interpreters offer various proposals to explain this alleged inconsistency: Luke wrote at a later date, far-removed …
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Re-contextualisation of the Lukan Oikos : a social scientific approach
The thesis of this study is that the concept of the church as oikost as found in. Luke-Acts provides principles to inspire the church to meet some present challenges- The concepts of church and family in the Gospel of Luke and in the Acts of the Apostles were examined. It was found that the first …
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Reclaiming the Radical Economic Message of Luke
<p>Of the four canonical gospels of the New Testament, the one most concerned with poverty, wealth, and the ethics of possession is Luke. It contains more economic material and a sharper message than do Mark, Matthew, or John. A centuries-long debate rages over just how revolutionary Luke’s message …