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People of the Spirit: Exploring Luke’s View of the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

People of the Spirit examines Luke’s understanding of the Church as found in both his Gospel and the Book of Acts. Topics such as Luke’s view of salvation, worship of Jesus amongst the first Christians, Pentecost, mission and the structure of the early church are examined in order to challenge the contemporary church to remain true to the Gospel.

Acts 1:1) is unlikely to be an outsider, and the large concluding section of his work deals with Paul’s trials and travels (21–28). It could be, in drawing attention to the Jewishness of Jesus, his birth and the importance of the fulfilment of prophecy, that Luke was writing in reaction to Marcion of Sinope. Marcion was the very influential heretic in the early second century, who rejected the Old Testament and ‘the bodily substance of Christ’.29 However, direct connections between Luke and Marcion
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