NT035-812 - Interpreting and Applying Acts

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT778-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of the Book of Acts

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of the Book of Acts

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of the Book of Acts

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Book of Acts

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Acts’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

The unit is made up of the following sections and sub-sections:

Section 1: Interpretative Approaches

  • Module 1: The History of Interpretation in Lukan theology
  • Module 2: Narrative Criticism to Acts
  • Module 3: Transitional Problems in Acts

Section 2: Hermeneutical Approaches

  • Module 4: Hermemenutical Approaches to Acts
  • Module 5: Philosophical and Ontological Approaches in Lukan Theology
  • Module 6: Theological Emphases of Acts

Section 3: Early Narrative Theology of Acts

  • Module 7: Christology
  • Module 8: Ecclesiology
  • Module 9: Eschatology and soteriology
  • Module 10: Pneumatology

Section 4: Practical Theology of Acts and Its Contemporary Application

  • Module 11: Pastoral Theology
  • Module 12: Missiology
  • Module 13: Homiletics

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Prescribed：

 

 

 A、李斐德 (Walter L. Liefeld)：《詮釋使徒行傳》，胡玉藩、麥啟新和麥陳惠惠譯，新約詮釋指南 (香港：天道書樓有限公司，2000)。

 

 

 

 

[Liefeld, Walter L. Commentary on Acts. Translated by Yu-Fan Wu. Hong Kong: Tien Dao Publishing Company, 2000.]

 

 

 

 

 B、馬歇爾 (Howard Marshall)：「使徒行傳」，《新約引用舊約(下)》，金繼宇和于卉等譯，潘秋松編，頁777-912，(美國：美國麥種傳道會，2012)。

 

 

 

 

[Marshall, Howard. “Acts.” In Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Edited by D. A. Carson, and G. K. Beale. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.]

 

 

 

 

C、張永信：《天道聖經註釋》，《使徒行傳》、卷一至三(香港：天道書樓有限公司，1999)。

 

 

 

 

[Cheung, Wing Sing. Commentary on Acts. Hong Kong: Tien Dao Publishing Company, 1999.]

 

 

 

 

D、黄鳳儀：《宗徒大事錄：早期教會一系列福傳故事研讀》，丘建峰編 (香港：論盡神學出版社有限公司，2007)。

 

 

 

 

[Fung-Yee, Wong. The Acts of the Apostles: A Study of Evangelistic Stories in the Early Church. Edited by Kin-Fong Yu. Hong Kong: The Lichen Publishing Company, 2007.]

 

 

 

 

Classics:

 

 

 

 

Baur, F. C. The Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Works, His Epistles and Teachings: A Contribution to a Critical History of Primitive Christianity. Edited by E. Zeller. Translated by A. Menzies. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003 [1945].

 

 

 

 

Conzelmann, Hans. Acts of the Apostles. Hermeneia, ed. Eldon Jay Epp and Christopher R. Matthews. Translated by James A. Limburg, A. Thomas Kraabel, and Donald H. Juel. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.

 

 

 

 

________. The Theology of St. Luke. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.

 

 

 

 

Gasque, W. Ward. A History of the Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1989.

 

 

 

 

Recommended:

 

 

 

 

Alexander, Loveday. Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context: A Classicist Looks at the Acts of the Apostles. New York: T & T Clark International, 2005.

 

 

 

 

Allen, Ronald J. Acts of the Apostles. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.

 

 

 

 

Bale, Alan J. Genre and Narrative Coherence in the Acts of the Apostles. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Barrett, C. K. Acts. 2 Vols. New York: T & T Clark, 2004.

 

 

 

 

Beers, Holly. The Followers of Jesus as the “Servant”: Luke’s Model from Isaiah for the Disciples in Luke-Acts. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Bock, Darrell L. A Theology of Luke and Acts. Biblical Theology of the New Testament, ed. Andreas J. Köstenberger. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.

 

 

 

 

Campbell, William S. The “We” Passages in the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator As Narrative Character. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.

 

 

 

 

Dunn, James D. G. The Acts of the Apostles. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.

 

 

 

 

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Acts of the Apostles. Anchor Bible, ed. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman, vol. 31. New York: Doubleday, 1998.

 

 

 

 

Gaventa, Beverly Roberts. The Acts of the Apostles. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

 

 

 

 

Green, Joel B. Conversion in Luke-Acts: Divine Action, Human Cognition, and the People of God. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Jervell, Jacob. The Theology of the Acts of the Apostles. New Testament Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

 

 

 

 

Kuhn, Karl Allen. The Kingdom according to Luke and Acts: A Social, Literary, and Theological Introduction. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Kwon, Yon-Gyong. A Commentary on Acts. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Marshall, I. Howard, and David Peterson, eds. Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

 

 

 

 

Mullins, Michael. Acts of the Apostles: A Commentary. Blackrock, Dublin: The Columba Press, 2013.

 

 

 

 

Moessner, David P. Luke the Historian of Israel’s Legacy, Theologian of Israel’s “Christ”: A New Reading of the “Gospel Acts” of Luke. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.

 

 

 

 

Pao, David W. Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002.

 

 

 

 

Schnabel, Eckhard J. Acts. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.

 

 

 

 

________. Early Christian Mission. 2 Vols. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004.

 

 

 

 

Shauf, Scott. The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Skinner, Matthew L. Intrusive God, Disruptive Gospel: Encountering the Divine in the Book of Acts. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015.

 

 

 

 

Stevens, Gerald L. Acts: A New Vision of the People of God. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016.

 

 

 

 

Thompson, Alan J. The Acts of the Risen Lord: Luke’s Account of God’s Unfolding Plan (NSBT: Nottingham: IVP, 2011)

 

 

 

 

Turner, Max. Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel’s Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

 

 

 

 

Witherington, Ben. The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.