Literary Function of Possession in Luke-Acts

by Luke Timothy Johnson

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241 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1977

About the author

Luke Timothy Johnson is an American New Testament scholar and historian of early Christianity. He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.

Johnson's research interests encompass the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Epistle of James.

Reviews

[Susie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great literary study of the role of possessions in the narrative of Luke-Acts. Points to the overarching motif of Jesus as a Prophet to whom the people must respond, and about whine they are divided. Uses the motif of possessions throughout the gospel and then the chronicle of the apostles asa means of demonstrating the response of individuals to Jesus and to the kingdom of God. Johnson clarifies that the symbolic use of possessions in this way does not detract from the literal understanding of possessions, but in fact derives from the actual power of possessions in human life.