Rethinking Luke’s Purpose:

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" Rethinking Luke’s Purpose: "
Randy J. Hedlun

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079626
Doc. No	:	LA123255
Call No	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02202009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Randy J. Hedlun
Title & Author	:	Rethinking Luke’s Purpose: [Article] : The Effect of First-Century Social Conflict\ Randy J. Hedlun
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/2
Page No	:	226–256
Abstract	:	This article addresses the issue of Luke’s authorial purpose for the composition of the Luke-Acts literature. Observing that existing theories are inadequate in that they fail to provide a comprehensive cohesive program for the literature’s content and are anachronistically complex, the article suggests an authorial purpose paradigm natural to the early Jesus movement’s status as a newly emerging society. Through application of Berger and Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge models, this article argues that reading Luke-Acts as the author’s legitimation of the Jesus movement’s social world is a valid, even preferred reading of the literature. By tracing key elements in the development of Luke’s legitimation conceptual machinery, the social conflict background is established–further indicating that it is the social conflicts that motivated the document’s writing and organized its content. This article lays a foundation for Luke’s legitimating strategy, which was in response to a purity conflict theme. It is argued that this was Luke’s primary purpose for writing Luke-Acts.
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	legitimation
Descriptor	:	purity boundary
Descriptor	:	purity conflict
Descriptor	:	purity map
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	social boundary
Descriptor	:	symbolic universe
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/17455251-02202009‬