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A fresh reading of Acts shows how its structure and story reveal missional significance, inviting... more A fresh reading of Acts shows how its structure and story reveal missional significance, inviting God’s people to be an instrument for the kingdom of God. This study investigates three related areas in: (1) constructing an appropriate literary method from within the vast field of literary criticism; (2) focusing on Acts as a whole literary work instead of narrower pericopes or the broader corpus of Luke-Acts; and (3) revealing theological significance from literary shape instead of imposing it on the narrative. The method is a focused narrative criticism joining structure elements (sections, sequence, and size) and story components (literary-spatial, literary-temporal, character, speech, and intertextual) to inform a narrative theology arising from the text. Three Graeco-Roman literary principles (from Horace and Aristotle) organise ancient and modern literary concepts. The study’s core central chapters investigate the literary shape of Acts’ Ending (21:15–28:31) as a finish and clo...
A fresh reading of Acts shows how its structure and story reveal missional significance, inviting... more A fresh reading of Acts shows how its structure and story reveal missional significance, inviting God’s people to be an instrument for the kingdom of God. This study investigates three related areas in: (1) constructing an appropriate literary method from within the vast field of literary criticism; (2) focusing on Acts as a whole literary work instead of narrower pericopes or the broader corpus of Luke-Acts; and (3) revealing theological significance from literary shape instead of imposing it on the narrative. The method is a focused narrative criticism joining structure elements (sections, sequence, and size) and story components (literary-spatial, literary-temporal, character, speech, and intertextual) to inform a narrative theology arising from the text. Three Graeco-Roman literary principles (from Horace and Aristotle) organise ancient and modern literary concepts. The study’s core central chapters investigate the literary shape of Acts’ Ending (21:15–28:31) as a finish and clo...