894 research outputs found
A dynamic reading of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts.
No full textThis study examines the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts through a new perspective: 'dynamic biblical narrative criticism'. Chapter I briefly surveys the past and present issues in the study of the Holy Spirit in Luke and Acts by focusing on three representative scholars: J. D. G. Dunn; R-P. Menzies; M. M. B. - Turner, while noting that their research (including that of other influential scholars) was almost always undertaken by 'historical critical methods', especially 'redaction criticism’. Then I set out my methodology and procedure for the present work. Chapter 2 provides the literary repertoire of the Lukan Holy Spirit by examining the use of ruach or pneuma in the Jewish Bible and concludes that the divine Spirit in the extra text is always characterized as God's own Spirit, revealing his will/purpose by representing his power, activity and presence through his human agents. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 explore the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts as dynamic biblical narrative. Chapter 3 discusses the relationship between the narrator’s point of view and the Spirit and notes especially that this point of View focuses not only on God and Jesus, but also on the Holy Spirit. References to the Holy Spirit are used to suggest narrative reliability: both the Lukan narrator and reliable characters are positively associated with the 'divine frame of reference', particularly with the Holy Spirit. Chapters 4 and 5 elucidate the Holy Spirit as a literary character through narrative theories of 'character' and 'characterization'. So Chapter 4 analyses the Spirit ill terms of 'character-presentation' and concludes that the Holy Spirit is characterized as God's promised Holy Spirit giving God's power and insight for his ongoing plan to God's human agents and his people in general as anticipated in the literary repertoire. At the same time, however, the Spirit is also characterized in close relation to (the risen) Jesus the Messiah and Lord, and after Jesus’ ascension the Spirit is almost always presented in contexts in which Jesus' witnesses are said to bear witness to the risen Jesus, not only to Jews, but also to Gentiles. Chapter 5 further explores the characterization of the Holy Spirit ill terms of the narrative function of the Spirit in relation to the causal aspect of the plot. It is argued that the major narrative function of the Holy Spirit is to empower and guide individual characters as God's human agents and Jesus' witnesses to seek and save God's people in accordance with the plan of God, while the Spirit also functions as verifying group characters as incorporated into God's people and is employed in relation to the life- situations of believers in settled communities by granting them charismatic gifts or comforting and encouraging them or initiating forms of patriarchal leadership. Chapter 6 summarizes the conclusions of the earlier chapters and briefly draws out implications of the results. of this study: (1) the theological significance of the Lukan presentation of the Holy Spirit and (2) the relationship of the Holy Spirit to (a) the narrator or implied author, (b) the text and (c) the implied reader of Luke-Acts, with final remarks about the legitimacy of Lukan ideology, the power of modem readers and my reading
Luke’s use of the Old Testament in Luke 22-23
No full textWhile Luke understands Jesus' suffering and death as the fulfillment of OT prophecy, he does not use many OT quotations or allusions to express this fact in his passion narrative. The question arises: How does Luke use the OT in his passion narrative, especially to show prophetic fulfillment?This study seeks to answer this question through an identification and analysis of the OT quotations, allusions, ideas, and stylistic elements in Luke 22-23. The criteria for identification and critical analysis are gathered from studying the history of scholarship on the subject from the Reformation to 1972.Our findings are that Luke presents the fulfillment of the key OT prophecy in his passion narrative, Is. 53:12/Lk. 22:37, through a thematic development of various aspects of its message. Other OT quotes, allusions, ideas, and stylistic elements contribute to the development of this theme. Luke's approach to the OT is Christocentric both in the sense that all the quotations and most of the allusions occur in the reported words of Jesus, and in the sense that most of Luke's OT material refers to the OT promises of a suffering and glorified Messiah. OT ideas also occur mainly in the reported words of Jesus and the OT stylistic elements are best understood as examples of LXX style imitation. We found that Luke's lack of allusions and quotations was probably due to his desire to have his readers relive the fulfillment events of the Passion as they unfold in the narrative without being distracted by editorial fulfillment proof~texts. Yet, at the same time Luke, the Christian theologian to the Gentiles, did make extensive use of the OT. With a Christocentric interpretational approach to understanding OT prophecy and theological content within a salvation history framework, Luke shows how the OT was important to Gentile Christians
Video Tour of Saint Luke\u27s Episcopal Church -- Jacksonville, Alabama
No full textThis video history was created by St. Luke\u27s Episcopal Church, located in Jacksonville, Alabama. The history is hosted by commentator Ronald J. Caldwell, a former professor of history at Jacksonville State University, and author of the book A History of St. Luke\u27s Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, Alabama, 1844-1994. Run time is approximately 57 minutes.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_alhist/1016/thumbnail.jp
From temple to house-church in Luke-Acts: a Lukan challenge to Korean Christianity
No full textThis dissertation examines the portrayals of the Temple, synagogue, and
house-churches in Luke-Acts to pose a Lukan challenge to the Korean church by using
a model of architectural space which is derived from social-scientific ideas originating
in anthropology, sociology and social psychology. The dissertation proposes the
relevance of the Lukan house-church to the Korean church today so as to transform
the latter's character in its architecture and use of space into the inclusive and
missionary one which is featured in Luke-Acts. The argument of the dissertation
begins with an exploration and defence of social-scientific method (Chapter 1).
Chapter 2 begins with a history and analysis of Korean Christianity which raises
problem surrounding its use of architectural space, before setting out a socialscientific
model of architectural space, which is then applied to contemporary Korean
church architecture. Challenging current understandings of a positive Lukan attitude
toward the Temple, this study proposes in Chapter 3 that Luke had a negative
understanding of the Temple in that it was an oppressive institution characterised by
segmented spaces which divided the people of God and thus showed its illegitimacy in
relation to the saving plan of God in Jesus. The dissertation next proposes in Chapter
4 that first-century synagogues were subsidiary Temple spaces which were extended
to most parts of Mediterranean world from the central sanctuary in Jerusalem, and that
Luke portrays the synagogues as similar to the Temple. Contrary to the Temple and
synagogue, the house in Luke-Acts expresses the inclusive salvation of the gospel
which incorporates a variety of people regardless of social status, gender, age and
ethnic origin (Chapter 5). In this interpretation, the house-church is represented as an
inclusive space accessible without institutional constraints. In the Gospel, it serves to
express the Kingdom of God into which sinners are invited to enter through meals and
to be incorporated into a fictive-kinship group created by Jesus. In Acts, the house is
not only a locus of Christian meetings in which the social relationships, characteristic
of family, are practised to enhance and legitimise the social identity of Jesus'
followers, but also the modus operandi of Christian mission through which the Christ-movement
spreads throughout the Mediterranean world. This study concludes with an
Epilogue containing brief suggestions for changes in Korean church architecture and
use of space based on these Lukan insights, which have the potential radically to
transform Korean Protestant Christianity
The Ascension of Jesus Christ: A Critical and Exegetical Study of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and in the Jewish and Christian Contexts
No full textThe aim of the present dissertation is to analyse and interpret the Ascension of Jesus as described in Luke-Acts, and to examine both the Jewish rapture traditions and the early Christian reception and interpretation of the Lukan accounts. In my research, I tried to explain how the Ascension event was shaped by Luke and the impact it had within the Christian Church of the first centuries.
The first chapter tackles the history of research on the Ascension and the proposed methodology. Following this, the second section of the thesis analyses the Jewish assumption (rapture) traditions found in both canonical and pseudepigraphal writings. The common elements between these traditions and the Ascension of Christ are observed in order to establish a certain dependence of the Ascension narrative on Jewish rapture accounts.
In the third chapter, I examine the two Ascension accounts in Luke-Acts (Lk 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11) and aim to explain the apparent inconsistencies between them. Certain aspects, such as redundancy and variations, are discussed in detail in the third section of this chapter.
The fourth chapter focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Lukan Ascension narratives within the early Christian Church (the pre-Nicene period). Finally, a summary of the entire thesis and some final remarks are drawn in the conclusion of the present study.
Two excursuses relevant to this research are included in the appendices: the first on the Jewish Hekhalot literature and Merkabah mysticism; and the second examining the Ascension in the Gospels according to Mark (16:19-20 of the ‘longer ending’) and John (20:17)
The voice of Jesus in six parables and their interpreters
No full text'Figures of speech' provide a suggestive key for approaching the question of Jesus' individual tone of voice. Apprehending a figure implies insight into an intention, and beyond intention to discern unconscious influences upon the speaker. This is the conceptual framework for a study of the 'voice of Jesus' in six parables peculiar to Luke (10:25-37; 15:11-32; 16:1-9; 16:19-31; 18:1-8; 18:9-14) and in commentaries upon them. In the premodern era commentators approached the parables with an immediacy of insight, seeking the divine intention behind the texts. Nevertheless we may hear the voice of Jesus echoing in their commentaries in morally specific tones. In the work of Jülicher 'insight', though repudiated, is still important, as he seeks the intention of Jesus through the figure of simile. Jülicher offers insight into Jesus as a passionate communicator, but goes beyond Jesus' intention in making him a propounder of generalities. More recently a concern with the intention of Jesus is replaced by a concern with how his voice was heard. The necessity of insight remains apparent in B.B. Scott's use of metaphor as an interpretative key. An impression is given of Jesus as a provocative subversive. In their context in Luke-Acts, the parables function as metonymies of the gospel, and yield an impression of the voice of Jesus as suggestively concerned with the life of this world. In the ministry of Jesus the parables function as synecdoches, offering hearers a realistic and hopeful 'part' of the world from which they must fashion a 'whole’. Against the background of Scripture the parables display a deep continuity with older forms of discourse, but also important tokens of newness. A stream of influence can be traced from the Old Testament, through Jesus and Luke, and on through their interpreters, though recently its course has been somewhat diverted
Illuminating Luke: the infancy narrative in Italian Renaissance painting
No full textTitle: Illuminating Luke: the infancy narrative in Italian Renaissance painting. Author: Hornik, Heidi J Illuminating Luke 164 p. Publisher: Harrisburg : Trinity, 2003
Force measurement techniques in short duration hypersonic facilities
No full textIn this thesis, the free-flight force measurement technique is commissioned, validated and implemented with increasing complexity in geometries within the University of Oxford High Density Tunnel, a short-duration, heated Ludwieg Tube. The motivation of the work was to improve the current capability of force measurement techniques through the free-flight methodology, allowing for the measurement of high quality, flight representative forces with lower uncertainties than established force measurement techniques. Rather than rigidly mount a sub-scale model through a sting and measure forces through a load cell, the free-flight technique allows the model to move in six degrees of freedom during the test time. This allows for forces and moments to be measured that are not impacted by the mounting structure but require non-intrusive methods to measure the model's kinematics. In this work, kinematics are measured through a 3 degree of freedom image tracking algorithm with sub-pixel accuracy and through accelerometers mounted internally to the model on an on-board data acquisition system.
This thesis introduces the static free-flight technique, whereby the aerodynamic pitching moment is minimised by matching the location of centre of gravity to centre of pressure, reducing the static margin of the model. This technique limits the dynamic influence on the measured aerodynamic coefficients and allows for only the static derivatives to be measured. This technique was conducted with a 7 degree half-angle cone, a simple geometry in which the measured coefficients can be validated against a numerical panel method code, giving confidence in the methodology. The tests were conducted at a Mach 7 condition representative of a hypersonic vehicle’s trajectory at 35 km altitude. Non-intrusive image tracking and on-board inertial measurement units were used to determine accelerations to calculate the aerodynamic forces acting on the cone. Results for lift, drag and pitching moment coefficients were obtained over a range of angles of attack and compared with predictions from a hypersonic panel method code. The experimental and numerical data sets agreed well over the range of angles of attack with the experimental uncertainties remaining below 3.1 \% for all coefficients.
Following validation of the static free-flight technique, tests were conducted to directly compare free-flight against force balance techniques. The force balance was calibrated using two methods; a static calibration and by dynamically calibrating the balance by generating a global impulse response function of the model and using the stress wave deconvolution methodology. The experimental model was a blunted 7 degree half-angle cone and experiments were conducted at a Mach 5 test condition which provided sufficient dynamic pressure to generate aerodynamic forces suitable for the measurement range of the force balance. Results for lift, drag and pitching moment coefficients were obtained over a range of angles of attack and compared with predictions from a hypersonic panel method code. Agreement between the independent force techniques and numerical data sets was good over the range of angles of attack. Maximum uncertainties were shown to be +/- 0.56 N and + /- 0.44 N for free-flight for lift and drag respectively and + /- 1.59 N and + /- 1.27 N for the dynamically calibrated force balance.
Finally, after showing that the free-flight methodology in the High Density Tunnel resulted in lower uncertainties than other force measurement techniques, it was applied to a 7 degree half-angle cone with fins, at a flight-representative Mach 7 condition. The fins resulted in a centre of pressure that was a function of angle of attack. Longitudinal static force and moment coefficients were measured at the Mach 7 condition with the experimental data agreeing well with numerical predictions. Forces were obtained using both image tracking at 76,000 fps as well as the direct measurement of accelerations using an on-board inertial measurement unit. Uncertainties remained below + /- 0.0075 for lift coefficient and + /- 0.0051 for drag coefficient. The fins were also angled to allow the model to roll in free-flight so that roll coefficient could also be determined
Present-day and future lightning, and its impact on tropospheric chemistry
No full textLightning represents a key interaction with climate through its production of
nitrogen oxides (NOx) which lead to ozone production. These NOx emissions are
generally calculated interactively in chemistry-climate models but there has been
little development of the representation of the lightning processes since the 1990s.
In most models the parametrisation of lightning is based upon simulated cloud-top
height. The aims of the thesis are: to explore existing schemes, and develop
a new process-based scheme, to parametrise lightning; to use a new process-based
lightning scheme to give insights regarding the role of lightning NOx in
tropospheric chemistry; and to use alternative lightning schemes to improve the
understanding of the response of lightning to climate change, and the consequent
impacts on tropospheric chemistry.
First, a new lightning parametrisation is developed using reanalysis data and
satellite lightning observations which is based on upward cloud ice flux. This
parametrisation is more closely linked to thunderstorm charging theory. It greatly
improves the simulated zonal distribution of lightning compared to the cloud-top
height approach, which overestimates lightning in the tropics. The new lightning
scheme is then implemented in a chemistry-climate model, the UK Chemistry
and Aerosol model (UKCA). It is evaluated against ozone sonde measurements
with broad global coverage and improves the simulation of the annual cycle of
upper tropospheric ozone concentration, compared to ozone simulated with the
cloud-top height approach. This improvement in simulated ozone is attributed to
the change in ozone production associated with the improved zonal distribution
of simulated lightning.
Subsequently, data from a chemistry-climate model intercomparison project (ACCMIP)
are used to study the state-of-the-art in lightning NOx parametrisation
along with its response to climate change. It is found that the models using the
cloud-top height approach produce a very similar response of lightning NOx to
changes in global mean surface temperature of +0.44± 0.05 TgNK-1, for a baseline
emission of 5 TgN yr-1. However, two models using two alternative lightning
schemes produce a weaker and a negative response of lightning to climate change.
Finally, simulations in a future climate scenario for year 2100 in the UKCA model
were performed with the cloud-top height and the ice flux parametrisations. The
lightning response to climate change when using the cloud-top height scheme is
in good agreement with the positive response found in the multi-model results
of the cloud-top height approach. However, the new ice flux approach suggests
that lightning will decrease in future. These opposing responses introduce large
uncertainty into the projections of tropospheric ozone and methane lifetime in the
future scenario. An analysis of the radiative forcing from these two species also
shows the large uncertainty in the individual methane and ozone radiative forcings
in the future. Due to the opposite effect that lightning NOx has on methane (loss)
and ozone (production) the net radiative forcing effect of lightning in present-day
and future is found to be close to zero. However, there is a small positive feedback
suggested by the results of the cloud-top height approach, whereas no feedback is
evident with the ice flux approach.
These results show there are large and crucial uncertainties introduced by
lightning parametrisation choice, not only in terms of the actual lightning
distribution but also atmospheric composition and radiative forcing. The new
ice-based parametrisation developed here offers a good alternative to the widely-used
approach and can be used in future to model lightning and develop the
understanding of associated uncertainties
Luke, The Friend of Sinners
No full textI examine the portrayal of Jesus as a friend of toll collectors and sinners in the Third Gospel. I aim at a comprehensive view on the Lukan sinner texts, combining questions of the origin and development of these texts with the questions of Luke s theological message, of how the text functions as literature, and of the social-historical setting(s) behind the texts.
Within New Testament scholarship researchers on the historical Jesus mostly still hold that a special mission to toll collectors and sinners was central in Jesus public activity. Within Lukan studies, M. Goulder, J. Kiilunen and D. Neale have claimed that this picture is due to Luke s theological vision and the liberties he took as an author. Their view is disputed by other Lukan scholars.
I discuss methods which scholars have used to isolate the typical language of Luke s alleged written sources, or to argue for the source-free creation by Luke himself. I claim that the analysis of Luke s language does not help us to the origin of the Lukan pericopes. I examine the possibility of free creativity on Luke s part in the light of the invention technique used in ancient historiography. Invention was an essential part of all ancient historical writing and therefore quite probably Luke used it, too. Possibly Luke had access to special traditions, but the nature of oral tradition does not allow reconstruction.
I analyze Luke 5:1-11; 5:27-32; 7:36-50; 15:1-32; 18:9-14; 19:1-10; 23:39-43. In most of these some underlying special tradition is possible though far from certain. It becomes evident that Luke s reshaping was so thorough that the pericopes as they now stand are decidedly Lukan creations. This is indicated by the characteristic Lukan story-telling style as well as by the strongly unified Lukan theology of the pericopes. Luke s sinners and Pharisees do not fit in the social-historical context of Jesus day. The story-world is one of polarized right and wrong. That Jesus is the Christ, representative of God, is an intrinsic part of the story-world. Luke wrote a theological drama inspired by tradition. He persuaded his audience to identify as (repenting) sinners. Luke's motive was that he saw the sinners in Jesus' company as forerunners of Gentile Christianity.Luukas, syntisten ystävä
Käsitys Jeesuksesta publikaanien ja syntisten ystävänä on keskeinen kirkon perinteessä. Myös Jeesuksen elämään perehtyneet tutkijat pitävät sitä tärkeänä piirteenä hänen toiminnassaan. Syntisten ystävä kuva lepää suurelta osin Luukkaan evankeliumin varassa. Se häivähtää Luukasta vanhemmassa Markuksen evankeliumissa ja Luukkaan käyttämässä Q-lähteessä. Luukkaan evankeliumi on kuitenkin ainoa, jossa publikaanit ja syntiset nousevat todella tärkeiksi.
Luukas-tutkimuksessa on ristiriitaisia käsityksiä evankelistan kirjoittajanroolista. Toiset näkevät Luukkaan vain tradition toistajana, toiset taas sen hyvin aktiivisena muokkaajana ja luovana kirjoittajana. Syntistekstitkin voidaan nähdä joko tradition tai kadonneen lähteen tarkkana toistamisena tai Luukkaan omina kirjallisina luomuksina.
Väitöskirjassani tutkin Luukkaan syntistekstejä ja muodostan kuvan sekä niiden syntyprosessista että Luukkaan kirjallisesta tyylistä, teologisesta sanomasta ja päämääristä oman aikansa kirkollisessa tilanteessa. Päädyn esittämään, että Luukkaan oma luovuus ja teologinen näkemys olivat ratkaisevia syntistekstien muovaamisessa, vaikka hän kirjoittikin jonkinlaisen perinteen pohjalta. Luukkaan kuvaamat syntiset ja fariseukset ovat tyyliteltyjä hahmoja, joiden avulla Luukas esittää teologisen draaman. Luukas ohjaa lukijaansa identifioitumaan katuviin syntisiin ja luo näin perustan kristinuskolle, jossa tämä identifikaatio nähdään keskeisenä ihmisen jumalasuhteessa. Luukas itse näki katuvat syntiset pakanauskonnoista kääntyvien kristittyjen esikuvina. Kuvauksellaan hän pyrki vaikuttamaan pakanakristittyjen identiteettiin ja asemaan kirkossa.ei saavutettav
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