Autobiography commentary on the gospel of luke

  • Introduction to the book of luke
  • Characteristics of luke's gospel
  • Sources of luke's gospel

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    The Gospel according to Luke

    In this fifth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpretation of the Third Evangelist’s Gospel (Luke 9:51-24). Wolter’s commentary fully complements the great tradition of "Handbooks of the New Testament" published bygd Mohr Siebeck. Replacing the third edition of Erich Klostermann’s commentary on Luke, Wolter’s volume rightly joins those by Conzelmann (Acts), Käsemann (Romans), and Lietzmann (1 Corinthians) in this venerable series.

    Wolter’s approach to a sustained reading of Luke’s Gospel is comprehensive. He carefully places Luke’s narrative of Jesus in its cultural context, paying close attention to the relationship of the Gospel with its Jewish and Greco-Roman environment. Wolter performs form-critical and narrative analysis of the specific stories; however, Wolter also emphasizes Luke as a theologian and his Gospel as a work of theology.

    Centrally, Wolter rec

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    Luke 1-9

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    The Kingdom of God is good news for the poor.

    Luke documents how Jesus ushered in God's Kingdom on Earth by creating a new Israel that includes the poor, utstötta, and marginalized. Jesus reverses the world order and elevates the humble. And he offers them a place of belonging in God’s eternal Kingdom and freedom from evil and sin.

    And just as this Kingdom fryst vatten unexpected, so is Jesus’ rule as the messianic King. He will reign over his people through serving and suffering. And his death on the cross ushers in a Kingdom marked by self-giving love and sacrifice.

    The Gospel of Luke emphasizes the upside-down nature of God’s Kingdom—a place where all are welcome and power structures are reversed. It's a place where the poor and humble, the utstötta of society, are elevated to places of honor. Luke emphasizes this through a series of parables about banquets, where Jesus illustrates that all are welcome in the family of God.

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    The Gospel of Luke

    * Catholic Media Association Award Winner   /  Pope Francis

    “What Francis highlights so powerfully in his preaching on this Gospel is the theme, so dear to Luke, of God’s mercy, God’s indefatigable quest for the lost, God’s unmerited and even rejected welcome of the strayed and the stubborn, and, above all, God’s endless tenderness in embracing the broken, the wounded, the rebellious, the ignorant, the resistant.”  —From the Foreword by Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM

     “It is no surprise to find Pope Francis a truly authentic interpreter of Luke’s Gospel. From the first moments of his pontificate the Pope has always made first for the poor, the marginalized, the burdened—exactly the direction in which Jesus points us in this Gospel. Every page in this collection displays Francis’s outstanding ability to find a fresh image, coin a new metaphor to bring the ancient message alive for today.”—Brendan Byrne, SJ, author, The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke’s