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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.

and resurrection of Jesus are viewed in an ascension framework.252 The tests for intentionality do not support this correspondence set as a whole; but certainly on the strength of the allusion to the ascension in Lk. 9:51 alone a similar conclusion may be drawn. Without the weight of the full set, however, it is difficult to perceive the journey as the “first part” of the ascension. Finally, Talbert attempts to establish a parallel between Luke-Acts and Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Pages 161–162
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