NT322 Book Study: The Gospel of Luke
Overview
In NT322, Dr. Bock walks through the Gospel of Luke. He looks at the major themes in the book, including discipleship, faithfulness to God, and the priority of the kingdom of God. Dr. Bock explains important background information and provides an overview of the narrative flow of the book as he shows how Jesus works in the context of Luke’s narrative.
Top Highlights
“But in the ancient world, when it came to religion, what is old is better; what is time-tested is better. And so, Luke is going to write Luke and Acts to point out that God had a program that—even though this thing that’s emerging, this Christian group that is surfacing, this new entity that is present, is not something that’s new—it’s rooted in old promises that go all the way back to Abraham, that go back thousands of years to original promises that God made, so that what looks to be new is actually quite old.” (source)
“Early on in the early church, the two Gospels that received the most attention were Matthew and John. This is because they were associated with apostles, and they also were believed to be the fullest presentations of Jesus’s teaching. Then, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Mark came to have a very central role in how the Gospels were seen because Mark came to be seen as the first Gospel written.” (source)
“There couldn’t be greater blindness in terms of the hometown people of Nazareth than their failure to see that God’s deliverance and God’s program and God’s plan is for all people. This echoes back to the genealogy that goes all the way back to Adam. It echoes back to the introduction of John the Baptist’s ministry in chapter 3, in which all flesh shall see the salvation of God. It echoes into the idea that Jesus has come not just to save Israel, but to save all the nations, and it is something that will be an emphasis in the rest of Luke and also extending into Acts, because one of the things that Theophilus needs to be assured about is that the gospel has come to deliver all of humanity and to reconcile Jew and Gentile to one another.” (source)
- Title: NT322 Book Study: The Gospel of Luke
- Author: Darrell L. Bock
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Luke › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Luke › Commentaries; Education › Bible. N.T. Luke--Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. N.T. Luke--Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:NT322BOCK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
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Dr. Darrell L. Bock, research professor of New Testament studies and professor of spiritual development and culture at Dallas Theological Seminary, serves as editor-at-large forChristianity Today, and is on the board of Chosen People Ministries and Wheaton College. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Bock served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
He has earned international recognition as a Humboldt Scholar for his work in Luke-Acts, historical Jesus study, biblical theology, as well as with messianic Jewish ministries. He has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News and is a well-known author of over 30 books. His publications include Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods,Jesus According to Scripture, an NIV Application Commentary on Luke, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, and commentaries on Acts and Luke in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series.