Acts Of The Risen Lord Jesus

Series Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction
Reassurance Concerning God’s Purposes: The Purpose(s) Of The Book Of Acts
Excursus: Assumptions Concerning Authorship, Audience, And Interpreting Acts

1. Living ‘between The Times’: The Kingdom Of God
2. The Hope Of Israel: The Resurrection And The Arrival Of The Last Days
3. Israel And The Gentiles: The Kingdom And God’s Promises Of Restoration
4. The Promise Of The Father: The Gift Of The Holy Spirit
5. The End Of An Era: The Temple System And Its Leaders
6. The End Of An Era: The Law Is No Longer The Direct Authority For God’s People
7. Concluding Summary

Bibliography
Index Of Authors
Index Of Scripture References
Index Of Ancient Sources

Additional Info
When the book of Acts is mentioned, a cluster of issues spring to mind, including speaking in tongues and baptism with the Holy Spirit, church government and practice, and missionary methods and strategies. At the popular level, Acts is more often mined for answers to contemporary debates than heard for its natural inflections.

Instead of using Acts as a prooftext, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume brings a biblical-theological framework to the account to expose Luke’s major themes as they relate to the book as a whole. With this framework in place, Alan Thompson argues that Acts is an account of the ‘continuing story’ of God’s saving purposes. Consequently we find that Luke wants to be read in light of the Old Testament promises and the continuing reign of Christ in the inaugurated kingdom.

Read in this way as a snapshot of God’s dynamic, unfolding kingdom, the book of Acts begins to regain the deep relevance it had in the first century.

Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.