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‘But God Raised Him from the Dead’: The Theology of Jesus’ Resurrection in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book, the first full-scale study of the resurrection of Jesus in Luke-Acts, Kevin L. Anderson situates Luke’s perspective on resurrection amongst Jewish and Hellenistic conceptions of the afterlife, and within the complex of Luke’s theology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology. He argues that the resurrection of Jesus constitutes the focus of the Lucan message of salvation.

that Jesus will be destined to bring about ‘the falling and rising of many in Israel’ and will be a ‘sign opposed’ (2:34). Thus, early on in Luke’s narrative, the priority of the people of Israel as recipients of salvation is underlined. But it is also disclosed that their response to God’s salvation will be divided, with some (perhaps many) rejecting the Lord’s Messiah. Alongside the achievement of Israel’s glory through Jesus, is the expansion of God’s salvation among ‘all peoples’ through the
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