The apologetic revisited
Subtitle: exonerating Luke from an ancestral exegetical and theological burden
By: Innocent Emezie Ezeani
Series: European University Studies, Series 23, Theology -- volume 945
Publisher: PL Academic Research
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783631654958
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Apologetics; Bible; Apologetic works
Description: The trend in the scholarship of Luke has been that of presenting Luke as being interested in the survival of Christianity within the Power apparatus of the Roman world. To achieve this pivotal aim, he seems to overlook that abysmal social maladies and wrongdoings of the Powerful of his time hoping not to engage the peace and tranquility of Christianity. The intention of this research, however, is to show the defiance and fearlessness of Luke in dealing with the rich and the Powerful. He did not comprise the basic teaching of Christianity even in his respect for the constituted profane Authorities of the Roman order. A second proper look beholds the critical dynamics of his Gospel and the Acts, beginning with the Magnificat running through the angelic Annunciation scene and the Temptation of Jesus and ending with the punishment of Herod Agrippa. The reader beholds a hitherto unknown Luke, who operates from a particular critical distance to the Powerful from the sociological perspective of hidden transcripts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318).