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By Charles Cleworth. Abstract. The growing trend of utilizing narrative criticism to interpret the New Testament, including the tools of character studies, has led to an increased focus upon the on the way Luke develops Peter’s character in the book of Acts.
In her treatment of Peter in Acts, Perkins maintains that the portrayal of Peter is consistent throughout Acts and that consistent characterization follows closely the ministry of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel.
This paper examines how the early Christian mission is portrayed in the Book of Acts. While leading figures such as Peter and Paul and their ministries dominate the narrative, there is a substantial amount of evidence that many more people than the apostles were involved in spreading the Gospel under different, at times adverse, circumstances.
6 cze 2013 · View full text | Download PDF. The study of Peter and Paul in the Acts of the Apostles has gone through primarily two methodological phases, a search for the historical Peter and Paul and a search for the literary Peter and Paul...
In this essay, I will investigate the relationship between genre and characterization, comparing Luke’s depiction of Peter and Paul as Jesus’ disciples in Acts with the ways in which followers of important figures are portrayed in ancient Graeco-Roman histories and biographies.
1 cze 2013 · The purpose of this book is to seek a fuller understanding of how the characterisation of Paul in Acts would have been perceived by those who first read or heard the Lucan narrative.
6 cze 2013 · In her treatment of Peter in Acts, Perkins maintains that the portrayal of Peter is consistent throughout Acts and that consistent characterization follows closely the ministry of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel.
