The sword-violence of Luke’s gospel: An overview of text segments
Though most readers of the Gospel of Luke are familiar with Jesus’s well-known statement about “taking up a sword” (Luke 22:49), Gospel also references other sword-violence text segments. The first reference occurs at Jesus’s birth (Luke 2:34, 35), and the last ends with Jesus’s arrest (Luke 22:47-5...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Review and expositor
Year: 2020, Volume: 117, Issue: 3, Pages: 395-401 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luke
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Guns
B sword B Jesus B Violence |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | Though most readers of the Gospel of Luke are familiar with Jesus’s well-known statement about “taking up a sword” (Luke 22:49), Gospel also references other sword-violence text segments. The first reference occurs at Jesus’s birth (Luke 2:34, 35), and the last ends with Jesus’s arrest (Luke 22:47-53). This expository article focuses upon reading Luke’s sword-violence passages with a wholistic lens that includes the theological, cultural, and social cues within the text. In this integrated reading approach, one captures the Lukan depiction of various dimensions of violence via a sword and the implicit and explicit challenge to resist sword-violence as the way for followers of Jesus. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0034637320948001 |
