The Paradox of Salvation: Luke's Theology of the Cross
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Overview
Refuting the allegation that the author of Luke-Acts showed no systematic thought about the significance of Jesus' death, this study affirms that Luke had a coherent theologia crucis. Peter Doble focuses sharply on the Gospel's death scene and explores three features which appear in Luke alone, then extends the exploration into the longer account of Jesus' final days in Jerusalem. The three Lukan features are first, that the centurion calls Jesus 'dikaios' rather than the 'Son of God' of Mark and Matthew; Doble examines Luke's use of the word in his Gospel and in Acts, and shows that its presence and force come from the Wisdom of Solomon. Second, in Luke, Jesus' final word from the cross, different from that in Mark and Matthew, belongs to the same Wisdom model. Third, the centurion in Luke, seeing the manner of Jesus' death, is said to have 'glorified God', and this is shown to be a Lukan verbal signal which appears whenever the evangelist wants to show that an element in the salvation programme has been fulfilled. In the final section Doble demonstrates how specific words and patterns from Wisdom shape and fill Luke's retelling of the story of Jesus' entrapment, trials and death. Luke wanted his readers to understand that what had happened to Jesus was not a humiliating rejection but in accord with scripture's presentation of God's plan, and culminated in the 'paradox' of his salvation.Synopsis
Shows the unique aspects of Luke's account of Jesus's death coming from Wisdom patterns and words.
Joel B. Green
Working from the assumption that Luke-Acts was addressed to a Christian readership in order to provide scriptural confirmation that they were the genuine heirs of God's promises, Doble attempts to show how Luke has drawn on words and patterns from the Wisdom of Solomon to demonstrate that Jesus' execution, far from constituting a shameful rejection, brought to expression the divine plan evident in "the paradox of salvation"....[A] welcome contribution to the growing appreciation of a distinctively Lukan way of construing the significance of the cross. —Society of Biblical Literature
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Joel B. Green
Working from the assumption that Luke-Acts was addressed to a Christian readership in order to provide scriptural confirmation that they were the genuine heirs of God's promises, Doble attempts to show how Luke has drawn on words and patterns from the Wisdom of Solomon to demonstrate that Jesus' execution, far from constituting a shameful rejection, brought to expression the divine plan evident in "the paradox of salvation"....[A] welcome contribution to the growing appreciation of a distinctively Lukan way of construing the significance of the cross. —Society of Biblical LiteratureJoel B. Green
Working from the assumption that Luke-Acts was addressed to a Christian readership in order to provide scriptural confirmation that they were the genuine heirs of God's promises, Doble attempts to show how Luke has drawn on words and patterns from the Wisdom of Solomon to demonstrate that Jesus' execution, far from constituting a shameful rejection, brought to expression the divine plan evident in "the paradox of salvation"....[A] welcome contribution to the growing appreciation of a distinctively Lukan way of construing the significance of the cross.— Society of Biblical Literature