Reading Luke (Cascade Companions) - Softcover

Dicken, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498233619 ISBN 13: 9781498233613

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2023

Synopsis

The Gospel of Luke is a book about Jesus, claiming to provide assurance concerning what its reader has been taught about Jesus. But how does it do that? This book provides an answer to that question by helping readers understand Luke as a gospel story in its historical context and with appreciation for the author’s literary artistry and theological perspectives. Part one explores background information and literary features of Luke such as its author and first readers, genre, plot and character development, the role of programmatic passages, and interpreting the large number of parables included by Luke. Part two focuses on themes that run throughout the Gospel: Jesus’s mission, salvation, discipleship, the kingdom of God, resurrection, and ascension. The discussion of these features and themes will provide readers of Luke’s Gospel with a grasp of its overarching framework so that they are able to comprehend Luke’s unique presentation of Jesus’s life and read the Gospel with increased confidence for themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Dicken (PhD, Edinburgh) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Lincoln Christian University (Lincoln, IL). He is the author of Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts (Mohr Siebeck, 2014) and Reading Luke in the Cascade Companions series (forthcoming). He is co-editor of Serving the Word (Wipf & Stock, 2015) and Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498233619
• ISBN 13: 9781498233613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188