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Lukan Theology in the Light of the Gospel’s Literary Structure is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke’s Gospel was purposefully written with theology embedded in its patterned literary structure. A critical analysis of this cyclical structure provides new windows into Luke’s interpretation of the individual pericopes comprising the Gospel and illuminates several of his theological interests.

features of correspondence to the central thrust of their respective passages naturally varies with the author’s desire. Therefore, a single definition cannot be formulated here. A basic development of these relationships for the Third Gospel is provided however in the section “Domain and Size of the Units That Comprise the Narrative Strata” below (page 214). A more thorough picture is developed throughout the remainder of this chapter. Certainly, it is reasonable to view Luke’s structure as his
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