Identity and Socio-Economic Relations in Luke’s Gospel
Author: Ndekha, Louis
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2023-11-29
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3863099516
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Going the Extra Mile
Author: Gunda, Masiiwa R.
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2024-07-22
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 3989890123
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Author: Mwale, Nelly
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2024-07-01
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 398989000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuke: A Social Identity Commentary
Author: Robert L. Brawley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0567669408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this commentary, Robert L. Brawley provides comprehensive coverage of issues and concerns related to Luke from the perspective of social identity. He argues that the Gospel of Luke is strongly concerned with the formation of identity from the very start of the text, which aims at the creation of a socially responsible community in continuity with that community's collective past. Brawley establishes a theoretical framework that focuses his interpretation - ranging from the narrative world and sociological issues to postcolonialism and hierarchies of dominance - and uses these perspectives to provide a clear overview of historical and critical issues related to an understanding of Luke. He then provides a thorough outline of and commentary on the text of the Gospel. Brawley's engagement with the text serves as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, clergy, and others interested in their own discoveries of the resources of Luke.
The Economy of the Kingdom
Author: Halvor Moxnes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-06-17
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1592447147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis social-scientific study of the Lukan text in its original context provides an embracing framework for appreciating both the initial and the contemporary significance of its radical social message - a vision of reordered relationships in the 'economy of the kingdom of God.' A fresh approach to Luke with many new points which future Lukan research will have to consider. John Elliott, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco
The Path to Salvation in Luke's Gospel
Author: MiJa Wi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0567687406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates Luke's message of salvation in relation to socio-economic issues, and thus concerns salvation of the rich as well as the poor. With a narrative reading of Luke's Gospel built on careful examination of its socio-economic context, it demonstrates that Luke's message of salvation is best understood as: 1) Divine mercy which champions the cause of the poor and redresses the injustice of the world, 2) Its human embodiment, and 3) Divine reward promised to those who enact mercy. Wi argues that Luke's question of 'what must we do?' juxtaposes salvation with 'doing', posing interesting questions with respect to the salvation of the rich. This volume highlights good news to the poor in terms of divine mercy and justice, shows that the reception of divine mercy calls for practices, which embody it, and above all clarifies Luke's notion of salvation of the rich which will happen as participation in the salvation of the poor. Wi's conclusion challenges its readers by asking the question along with Luke's audience: What must we do?
Women’s Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor
Author: Katherine Bain
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1451479832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving beyond discussions of patriarchy and prescribed “women’s roles” in the Roman world—discussions that have relied too much on elite literary sources, in her view—Katherine Bain explores what inscriptional data from Asia Minor can tell us about the actual socioeconomic status of women in the first and second centuries C.E. Her findings suggest that outside of the prescriptive lenses of the upper classes, women were described, in honorary and funerary inscriptions, in terms that mirrored the socioeconomic status of men, suggesting that women’s leadership in social associations—and by implication in Jewish and Christian congregations as well—was even more frequent than has been imagined.
A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke
Author: Xiaoli Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9004363114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Dialogue between Haizi’s Poetry and the Gospel of Luke Xiaoli Yang offers a conversation between the Chinese soul-searching found in Haizi’s (1964–1989) poetry and the gospel of Jesus Christ through Luke’s testimony. It creates a unique contextual poetic lens that appreciates a generation of the Chinese homecoming journey through Haizi’s poetry, and explores its relationship with Jesus Christ. As the dialogical journey, it names four stages of homecoming—roots, vision, journey and arrival. By taking an interdisciplinary approach—literary study, inter-cultural dialogue and comparative theology, Xiaoli Yang convincingly demonstrates that the common language between the poet Haizi and the Lukan Jesus provides a crucial and rich source of data for an ongoing table conversation between culture and faith.
Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics
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Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 1691
ISBN-13: 1441239987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers needed orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is the best reference work available on the intersection of these two fields. The volume shows how Christian Scripture and Christian ethics are necessarily intertwined and offers up-to-date treatment of five hundred biblical, traditional, and contemporary topics, ranging from adultery, bioethics, and Colossians to vegetarianism, work, and Zephaniah. The stellar ecumenical list of contributors consists of more than two hundred leading scholars from the fields of biblical studies and ethics, including Darrell Bock, David Gushee, Amy Laura Hall, Daniel Harrington, Dennis Olson, Christine Pohl, Glen Stassen, and Max Stackhouse.
Engaging Economics
Author: Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2009-10-23
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0802864147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Emerging Economics' reveals the economic dimentisons of the theology of the early Jesus movement & explains how this is reflected in the texts of the New Testament & the reception of those texts within the patristic era.
