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Encountering the Living God in Scripture: Theological and Philosophical Principles for Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

This work gives a philosophical and theological account of the belief that Scripture enables people to encounter the life-giving reality of God. The authors examine the biblical foundations for this belief as given in a variety of witnesses from both Testaments and explain the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Christian exegesis. What results is a contemporary statement of the...

58:6 speaks of the anointed one’s commission “to let the oppressed go free” (Luke 4:18). Arguably, in Luke’s narrative, this phrase refers to Jesus’s ministry of exorcism (cf. 4:31–37, 41; 6:18; 7:21; 8:2, 29; 9:42; etc.), for later, in Acts 10:38, Peter speaks of Jesus as “healing all who were oppressed by the devil.”50 When Luke presents Jesus performing the messianic works of healing the sick and driving out demons, he speaks of Jesus’s “power” (Greek: dynamis). Luke has already established that
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