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Luke - The Elite Evangelist (Paperback)
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Luke - The Elite Evangelist (Paperback)
Series: Pauls Social Network
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Loot Price R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
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Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social
network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of
a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of
relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and
coworkers, it takes little effort to envision the apostle's
collection of friends and friends of friends that is the Pauline
network. The persons who constituted that network are the focus of
this set of books. For Christians of the Western tradition, these
persons are significant ancestors in faith. While each of them is
worth knowing by themselves, it is largely because of their
standing within that web of social relations woven about and around
Paul that they are of lasting interest. Through this series we hope
to come to know those persons in ways befitting their first-century
Mediterranean culture. What can we discover about the author of the
third gospel and Acts, the companion of Paul whom tradition names
Luke? How might that enable us to better appreciate the writings he
produced that comprise roughly a quarter of the New Testament?
Using literacy in the Greco-Roman world and Luke's advanced
literary acumen as his primary clues, Karl Allen Kuhn argues that
the evangelist was a member of the social elite. Social scientific
models tell us that as an elite, Luke would have benefited from a
highly stratified social and economic hierarchy that ensured the
flow of wealth and resources to a few at the expense of the many.
And yet, Kuhn argues, scene after scene of Luke's narrative
challenge the stratified world shaped by Rome, calling its readers
to embrace a new Kingdom and a new Lord. Writing to the most
excellent Theophilus," Luke calls upon his fellow elites to join
him in leaving behind the world that has given them so much and to
devote themselves not to the Emperor but to the true Savior of
humankind. Karl Allen Kuhn is associate professor of religion at
Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He is the author of
numerous articles on Luke and biblical interpretation, and coauthor
of the Lectionary commentary New Proclamation, Year C, 2010. His
books include Having Words with God: The Bible as Conversation and
The Heart of Biblical Narrative: Rediscovering Biblical Appeal to
the Emotions. "
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