of human origin and so not effected by human causality, it involved real human beings within a specific geographical location and within a definite historical setting. As in the Old Testament narration of the Lord’s divine acts, it is imperative, for Luke, that God, who exists distinct from the world, is nonetheless capable of acting within the world, and thus his actions are historical events. The terminal effect of his actions inheres within this historical world while the cause of the action is