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Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Charles Talbert’s effective and insightful commentary enables the reader to grasp the full force of the literary masterpiece that is Luke’s Gospel. Talbert concentrates on Luke’s version of the prophetic nature of Jesus’ life, His anointment by the Holy Spirit and His Galilean ministry, His journey to Jerusalem and His ministry there, and His Martyrdom and Vindication. The author includes two...

human catalyst develops the divine possibilities inherent in the world. Only the fifth option truly expressed Luke’s Christian convictions. God is other than the world but acts directly in it. The one born partakes of both the divine and human spheres. Such a life is due to human submission to the divine will. (Talbert 1994) For Luke, only a virgin birth was an adequate explanation of Jesus’ origins. It was theologically important to begin with the virgin birth because exaltation Christology was
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