Bovon, Francois,

Studies in early Christianity / [print] Francois Bovon. - first pbk. edition. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, (c)2005. - viii, 336 pages ; 23 cm.

"For the paperback edition, chapters 3,8, and 9 have been translated from the German, and corresponding adjustments have been made to the table of contents and indexes"--T.p. verso.



The apostolic memories in ancient Christianity -- Luke-Acts. -- Studies in Luke-Acts : retrospect and prospect ; -- Meteorology in the Synoptics (Luke 12:54-56 par.) ; -- Apocalyptic traditions in the Lukan special material : reading Luke 18:1-8 ; -- The law in Luke-Acts ; -- The Lukan story of the passion of Jesus (Luke 22-23) ; -- The role of the Scriptures in the composition of the Gospel accounts : the temptations of Jesus (Luke 4:1-13 par.) and the multiplication of the loaves (Luke 9:10-17 par.) ; -- "Well has the Holy Spirit spoken to your fathers through the Prophet Isaiah" (Acts 28:25) -- New Testament theology. -- Parable of the Gospel--parable of the Kingdom of God ; -- The church in the New Testament : servant and victorious ; -- These Christians who dream : the authority of dreams in the first centuries of Christianity ; -- The canonical structure of Gospel and Apostle ; -- Israel in the theology of the Apostle Paul -- Apocryphal and patristic literature. -- Jesus' missionary speech as interpreted in the patristic commentaries and the apocryphal narratives ; -- The Synoptic Gospels and the non-canonical acts of the apostles ; -- The suspension of time in chapter 18 of the Protevangelium Jacobi ; -- The words of life in the Acts of the Apostle Andrew ; -- Miracles, magic, and healing in the apocryphal acts of the apostles ; -- A new citation of the Acts of Paul in Origen ; -- Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical history and the history of salvation ; -- From St. Luke to St. Thomas by way of St Cyril ; -- The apocryphal reception of Luke's Gospel and the orthodox reading of the apocryphal acts of the apostles.



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Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

BS2395 BS2395.B783.S783 2005