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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.

of Jesus by Israel, but in his resurrection by God. God’s purpose is fulfilled when Jesus dies, but particularly in the manner of his death as a righteous victim. The execution of Jesus stands as a past fulfilment of God’s design (Acts 2:23; 4:27–28), even though it was carried out in ignorance (Acts 3:17–18; 13:27, 29). Both the death and resurrection of Jesus fall under divine necessity (Luke 24:26; Acts 17:3), but only the latter has a lasting salvific effect. The divine plan was fulfilled when
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