The Paradox of Salvation: Luke's Theology of the Cross

by Peter Doble

Overview

This study refutes the allegation that Luke showed no systematic thought about the significance of Jesus' death. Doble focuses on the unique features of Luke's death scene and extends the results into the account of Jesus' final days; he demonstrates how specific words and patterns from Wisdom shape and fill the evangelist's retelling. 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 for salvation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521552127
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/21/1996
Series:	Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series , #87
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Luke's Theology of the Cross: preliminary matters: 1. Luke and the cross: setting the scene; Part II. Substantial matters: Three Distinctive Elements at Luke 23.46, 47: 2. Luke's use of doxazein ton theon; 3. Dikaios and 'innocent': Luke 23.47; 4. Dikaios in Luke's Gospel; 5. Dikaios as a christological descriptor: Acts; 6. 'Father, into thy hands...'; Part III. Echoes of Wisdom in Luke's Theology of the Cross: 7. Wisdom in Luke's passion story; 8. Towards a Lukan theologia crucis.

Editorial Reviews

"This is an excellent and most welcome study.... D[oble] deserves high marks for making a very strong case that we should let Luke be Luke and should not devalue his theology of the cross because it is not Pauline." Robert J. Karris, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

"...a worthwhile reference point." Richard S. Ascough, Toronto Journal of Theology

From the Publisher

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

Joel B. Green