The Gospel According to Luke (BN9050P)

Content

From the outset, Luke’s Gospel is framed as a response to many other accounts (Lk 1.1-4), but what’s important for the writer of the third gospel when it comes to putting together a new narrative about Jesus? Taking an in-depth look at Luke in its historical context and in light of literary and cultural traditions of its time, we will explore themes such as inclusion and exclusion, hospitality, wealth, identity, ethnicity, disability, and gender (attending to both ancient and modern norms), noting how these intersect with Luke’s theology and purpose. As we engage with all this and more in Luke’s narrative, attention will be given to how Luke’s theology relates to his use of prophecy, account of justice, salvation, and end-time hope, and how this theology speaks to the contemporary church and world.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Earliest Christianity or equivalent NT Introduction

Pedagogy

Lectures, seminars, discussion groups, and online forums.

Indicative Bibliography

• Byrne, Brendan S.J. The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke’s Gospel (Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2000)
• Carroll, John T. Luke: A Commentary (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012)
• Green, Joel (ed.) Methods for Luke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke, Sacra Pagina, (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1991)
• Levine, Amy-Jill (ed), A Feminist Companion to Luke (London: Sheffield Academic, 2002).
• Neyrey, Jerome (ed). The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation.
• Parsons, Mikeal, Luke: Paideia Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015)
• Smith, Dennis E., and Hal Taussig, eds. Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
  
• Sugirtharajah, R. S (ed.) Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. ( Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2006)
• Tannehill, Robert, The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts : A Literary Interpretation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1990)
• Wilson, Brittany E. Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

Assessment