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I. Howard Marshall offers commentary on the book of Acts, showing how it is a history book of the early church, a literary work, the sequel of a work beginning with the Gospel of Luke, and a work of theology. Luke’s purposes are varied. He writes with a pastoral concern. He shows how the essential task of the church is mission. He describes how God does not accept racial discrimination. Luke...

experience of salvation. On this view of things, the book of Acts was intended as an account of Christian beginnings in order to strengthen faith and give assurance that its foundation is firm. Obviously, a book written with this aim has an evangelistic purpose, but the scope of Luke–Acts stretches beyond material that is purely evangelistic. If we adopt this view of Luke–Acts, it becomes highly unlikely that the primary purpose of Acts was to provide some kind of political apologetic for Christianity.
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