The Paradox of Salvation: Luke's Theology of the Cross
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...
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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
PrefaceList of abbreviationsPt. ILuke's theology of the cross: preliminary mattersPt. IISubstantial matters: three distinctive elements at Luke 23.46, 47Pt. IIIEchoes of Wisdom in Luke's theology of the crossBibliographyIndex of biblical referencesIndex of authors
\ Joel B. GreenWorking 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. GreenWorking 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\ \
