The Theology of the Acts of the Apostles (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521413855)

Who are the people of God? Luke's purposes in Acts are to identify the Church, to establish the legitimacy of its gospel and to demonstrate that God was an active force in history. He shows that the communities of Jewish and Gentile Christians are the true heirs of God's promises to Israel. This is a theological interpretation of the history of the Church within history: Luke is an artist, a narrator rather than a systematic theologian, but he writes about the roles of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit and of the Church.

Author: Jacob Jervell
ISBN-10: 0521413850
ISBN-13: 9780521413855
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/1996
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.59w x 0.55d