World Upside Down
Author | : C. Kavin Rowe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0199767610 |
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No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-à-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse, author Kavin Rowe argues that Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document. Luke aims at nothing less than the construction of a new culture - a total pattern of life - that inherently runs counter to the constitutive aspects of Graeco-Roman society.