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Conversion in Luke-Acts: Divine Action, Human Cognition, and the People of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Repentance and conversion are key topics in New Testament interpretation and in Christian life. However, the study of conversion in early Christianity has been plagued by psychological assumptions alien to the world of the New Testament. Leading New Testament scholar Joel Green believes that careful attention to the narrative of Luke-Acts calls for significant rethinking about the nature of...

Thus far, we have seen that Luke has a heightened interest in conversion and that he represents conversion less with an interest in technique or pattern and more with an interest in certain relatively stable elements. These include a key concern with directionality (with reference particularly to a trajectory defined in terms of God’s restorative purpose and oriented toward Jesus and his message), a pervasive emphasis on the journeyed nature of conversion (and thus
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