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The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

This substantial, reliable introduction examines the character and purpose of Luke and Acts and provides a thorough yet economical treatment of Luke’s social, historical, and literary context. Karl Allen Kuhn presents Luke’s narrative as a “kingdom story” that both announces the arrival of God’s reign in Jesus and describes the ministry of the early church, revealing the character of the kingdom...

and others into his narrative and compelling them to entertain the vision of the Kingdom it proclaims. For a time, it was common for scholars to argue that one of Luke’s main objectives in writing his narrative was to demonstrate to Roman leaders that Christianity was politically and socially benign, posing no threat to the current world order, and that it should be regarded as another sect of an accommodating Judaism. As we shall discuss in chapter 10,
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