The theme of Acts: Institutional history or divine necessity in history?

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

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Proponents for some sort of history as the major theme of Acts are not few.1 Hubert Cancik has now provided us with a stimulating article on Acts as the history of an institution.2 His thesis seems to be that "Luke-Acts is a history that narrates the origin and spread of an institution.... The 'person' who is a thematic center of Luke's history appears for the first time late in the second logos as an acting subject. It has peace, walks in the fear of the Lord, and becomes ever larger and more numerous" (p. 673). This is from ...

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