The Theology of Luke-Acts, Darrell Bock, Free Master Class Saturday, 05 December

Luke writes more of the New Testament than any other New Testament writer, including Paul. Yet his theology is often an 'orphan' in thinking through the Theology of the New Testament. Half of what we know of Jesus’ parables came from Luke. We would know far less of the early church if we did not have Acts. This Master Class engages with key Lukan theological themes, showing the scope and value of his contribution to the canon.

1. Putting Acts in Context

2. Is the Paul of Acts the Paul of the Epistles?

3. A Look at Luke-Acts Theology: God, Christology, the Spirit, and the Plan of God

4. A Look at Luke-Acts Theology: Salvation, Mission, and Discipleship

5. A Look at Luke-Acts Theology

Darrell L. Bock is Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas, as well as Executive Director of Cultural Engagement for the Hendricks Center for Christian Leadership there. An author or editor of about fifty books, his special fields of study involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Luke-Acts, the historical Jesus, Gospel studies, and the integration of theology and culture. It is this latter area that is the focus of his work at the Hendricks Center, where he is responsible for producing a web-based, weekly podcast on issues of God and culture called The Table and author of the recent book, Cultural Intelligence: Living for God in a Diverse, Pluralistic World. He is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and the University of Aberdeen (Ph.D.). He has had four annual stints of post doctoral study at the University of Tübingen, the second through fourth as an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University