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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...

further, extremely important view is that Luke was attempting to come to terms with the problem caused for the church by the fact that the second coming or parousia of Jesus had not yet happened despite the church’s expectation of it in the very near future; Luke, it is claimed, wrote to produce a new theological outlook, in which the coming of the Spirit and the mission of the church filled the gap caused by the delay of the parousia.12 It is not clear whether the proponents of this view regard
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