"Do this as my memorial" (Luke 22:19): Lucan soteriology of atonement

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

CONFIGURING A THEOLOGY OF ATONEMENT in Luke-Acts may be hindered by misreading Luke 22:19, overinterpreting Luke's omission of Mark 10:45, or collapsing the notion of expiation into that of redemption.' Luke had available to him in his LXX source a rich theology of expiation in which sacrificial substitution played only a minor part.2 In appointing the bread rite as memorial and the cup as covenant in Jesus' blood Luke uses contemporary Jewish (Jewish-Christian) piety to assign meaning and significance to the cross. The soteriology of memorial before God is embedded in the cultic, expiatory ...

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