Whats the picture of Jesus that emerges from Lukes writing?
In Luke, Jesus emerges primarily as a teacher, a teacher of ethical wisdom, someone who’s confident and serene in that ethical teaching. Someone who is very much interested in inculcating the virtues of compassion and forgiveness among his followers. What do we know about the context in which Luke was writing? Luke was probably writing in the latter decades of the first century, probably in a thoroughly Hellenistic environment. Scholars speculate on whether the gospel was written in Antioch, which would have been a significant Hellenistic city, or in Asia Minor, in places like Ephesus or Smyrna. In either case, Luke would have been in touch with, and very heavily in dialogue with, Hellenistic culture broadly conceived. What would have been the great concerns of the other Christian churches that he might have been addressing? One of the major concerns that the composite work of Luke and Acts addresses is whether Christians can be good citizens of the Roman Empire. After all, their found
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