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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Luke-Acts"”.
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Women and the Gospel in Luke-Acts
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1955 [January Mid-Session Convocation]
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The hermeneutics of social identity in Luke-Acts
… of this dissertation is that the author of Luke-Acts seeks to create and shape identity among God-fearers in the New Christian Movement by means of “cultural memory” and prescribed group behavior. Luke has an inclusive agenda that involves decentralization of the Jewish establishment, while …
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The topos of divine testimony in Luke-Acts.
… the concept of authoritative testimony in Luke-Acts. Specifically, the dissertation argues that ancient audiences would have understood particular elements in the narrative of Luke-Acts to be instances of the topos of divine testimony, considered by ancient rhetoricians to be the most …
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Shaping Church Culture: Table Fellowship and Teaching in Luke-Acts
This thesis examines Luke-Acts to explore if, how, and in what ways Jesus and early church leaders intentionally shaped the culture of their followers. In Luke, table fellowship was the primary means Jesus used to shape the culture of his followers, as demonstrated through the prominence of eleven …
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Josephus and Luke-Acts: A critical review of a thesis by Steve Mason
… for both the content and literary style of Luke-Acts, specifically: This theory, I have termed the "Mason thesis" and which advocates that apart from its obvious dependence on Q. and Ev.Matt. Luke-Acts, was largely indebted to Josephus for much of his historical information as well as his …
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The Role of the Holy Spirit in Leading Ecclesial Change in Luke-Acts
… for leading ecclesial change within the text of Luke-Acts. Chapter 1 describes the purpose, goals, rationale, and research methodology for the study. Chapter 2 is a literature review that examines secular, Christian, and biblical/theological models for leading ecclesial change. Chapter 3 examines …
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Foundations for a Biblical Model of Servant Leadership in the Slave Imagery of Luke-Acts
… are rooted in the slave language employed in Luke-Acts. First, the slave leader becomes God's own possession through redemption and therefore the leader belongs to God and is placed under the Lord's absolute authority. Second, the leader's identity is found exclusively in his relationship to …
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Sight and blindness as an index of character in Luke-Acts and its cultural milieu.
… study of the biblical texts, and specifically of Luke-Acts. It is a literary study that seeks to understand what an ancient audience might have heard when reading these texts. Specifically, this dissertation is a literary study in characterization, particularly the use of physical descriptions as …
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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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Theophilus and the Centurions: Roman Officials as the “Most Excellent” Proponents of the Gospel in Luke-Acts
… and implications of two key findings in Luke-Acts. The first is that Luke wrote his two-volume work to Theophilus, a high-ranking Roman official who was sympathetic towards Christianity. The second is that centurions serve as proponents of the gospel at crucial points in the narrative. …
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Church as the ‘Hermeneutic of the Gospel’: a study of the themes of ‘message’, ‘response’, and ‘community’ in Luke-Acts
… of ‘message’, ‘response’, and ‘community’, in Luke-Acts, with particular attention focused on John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Early Church. The ‘message’ sections will enquire into the content of the truth claim being made in the proclamation by these different characters. The ‘response’ …
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The Ascension of Jesus Christ: A Critical and Exegetical Study of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and in the Jewish and Christian Contexts
… interpret the Ascension of Jesus as described in Luke-Acts, and to examine both the Jewish rapture traditions and the early Christian reception and interpretation of the Lukan accounts. In my research, I tried to explain how the Ascension event was shaped by Luke and the impact it had within the …
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The 'poor and the rich' in Luke-Acts : a socio-cultural and ideological analysis of Luke's social vision for the new Christian community
This study examines the biblical texts of Luke-Acts in an attempt to reconstruct the general first century eastern Mediterranean context in which Luke wrote. Specific features of urban Greco-Roman society will be analysed. These include the social, cultural, political, economic and religious …
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The Messiah and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit: The Christological Significance of Jesus' Role as the Giver of the Spirit in Luke-Acts
… the general consensus among scholars that Luke emphasizes the humanity of Jesus, this dissertation attempts to contribute to the field of Lukan Christology by contending that there is more to the Lukan portrait of Jesus than what is generally acknowledged. Through his particular …
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The atonement in Lukan theology
This dissertation examines the narrative of Luke-Acts in order to assess the widespread scholarly assertion that Luke either rejects or minimizes atonement theology in his presentation of the death of Jesus. Chapter 1 provides a history of modern research on the meaning of Jesus' death in Lukan …
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The Stairway to Heaven: a Critique of the Evangelical Gospel Presentation in North America
… Bright, and Graham with conversion accounts from Luke-Acts. Essentially, I ask if the evangelical presentation is understood by Americans and if it is supported by conversion pericopes in Luke-Acts.</p> <p><em>The conclusions</em> . My research indicates that the dominant evangelical gospel …
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Pentecost and Sinai: assessing Acts 2 through a Lukan literary pattern
… conclude that in the account of Pentecost in Acts 2 the author makes parallels to the event of the giving of the law at Sinai. Previously these parallels have primarily been argued through secondary texts. This thesis is interested in engaging with the primary text, the Old and New Testament, …
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'Speech unhindered': A study of irony in the Acts of the Apostles
This thesis explores Classical irony in the Acts of the Apostles. Recent studies of irony in Luke-Acts do not focus much on the Classical concept, developing their argument rather on more recent understandings. Although building on this literature, this thesis is grounded in a Classical …
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Re-contextualisation of the Lukan Oikos : a social scientific approach
… 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 church community was constituted …
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