World upside down reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman age
No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-a-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse author Kavin Rowe argues, Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2010, c2010
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-a-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse author Kavin Rowe argues, Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document |
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| Physical Description: | 304 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780199869459 0199869456 |