The Spirit and the 'Other' Social Identity, Ethnicity and Intergroup Reconciliation in Luke-Acts

Kuecker uses an artillery of social identity theory to demonstrate that in Luke''s narrative the Spirit is the central figure in the formation of a new social identity. In his argumenation Kuecker provides extended exegetical treatments of Luke 1-4 and Acts 1-15. He shows that Luke 1-4 establishes a foundation for Luke''s understanding of the relationship between human identity, the Spirit, and the ''other'' - especially as it relates to the distribution of in-group benefits beyond group boundaries. With regard to Acts 1-15, Kuecker shows that the Spirit acts whenever human identity is in question in order to transform communities and individuals via the formation of a new social identity.Kuecker argues that Luke depicts this Spirit-formed social identity as a different way of being human in community, relative to the normative identity processes of other groups in his narrative. This transformed identity produces profound expressions of interethnic reconciliation in Luke-Acts expressed through reformed economic practice, impressive intergroup hospitality, and a reoriented use of ethnic language.>

Product details

• Authors: Dr Aaron Kuecker, Aaron Kuecker
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.03.2013
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9780567249142
• ISBN: 978-0-567-24914-2
• Pages: 296
• Series: Bloomsbury T&T Clark; Library of New Testament Studi; Library of New Testament Studi; The Library of New Testament Studies
• Subjects: RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, New Testaments, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity