The purpose of this study is to examine the meaning of the true nature and essence of discipleship in Luke-Acts. Critical scholarship on the Lukan discipleship, until now, has been considerably dominated by historical interests and/or theological concerns tackled within ‘traditional’ historical crit...
The purpose of this study is to examine the meaning of the true nature and essence of discipleship in Luke-Acts. Critical scholarship on the Lukan discipleship, until now, has been considerably dominated by historical interests and/or theological concerns tackled within ‘traditional’ historical criticism and especially by the method of redaction criticism. Meanwhile a narrative-critical approach as part of literary criticism has appeared and flourished in biblical studies including Luke-Acts during the last two decades. Though such approaches have produced significant academic fruits, the subject of the Lukan discipleship has been insufficiently dealt with in several reasons. In this sense, this study has an aim to revisit and highlight the essential nature or characteristic of the Lukan discipleship in critically evaluating the past major academic works. This thesis takes an ‘inter-textual interpretation approach’ to explore the parallels between Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts. It will show that Luke consciously or unconsciously predicates the same action, places, words, description, and ill-treatment(passion) of Jesus and his followers. As a result of this analysis, the parallels shown in Luke-Acts would disclose continuity and discontinuity between them. As continuity aspect, on the one hand, Jesus was portrayed as a ideal model of God’s human agent to his disciples to follow/imitate him and then succeed his mission. On the other hand, however, as discontinuity aspect, Jesus was delineated as the single unique Messiah (and the Lord) to be confessed, namely the object of faith. In other words, disciples should accept Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. Chapter Two set out to examine a background for the Lukan term ‘disciple’ in the Old Testament, Greco-Roman world and first-century Judaism which follows the academic research on the previous major academic works related to my subject in Chapter One. I have argued that the concept itself between the teacher-disciple relationship in Luke-Acts was more or less influenced by the Old Testament background, while the term itself ‘disciple’ was naturally accepted from the teacher-disciple relationship of Greco-Roman world. Chapter Three has explored the usage of ‘disciple’ and ‘apostle’ in Luke-Acts in examining other co-related terms such as ‘christians’, ‘those who follow the way’, ‘brothers’, ‘witnesses’ and so on. Luke has had freedom to write the usage of varied forms which refer to the concept of ‘disciples’. It shows that Luke has used a term of ‘disciple’ as a general term to denote ‘believers in Christ’ as members of new eschatological community. Therefore, the essential nature of disciples are those who believe in Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. Chapter Four deal in the textual parallels between Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts, such as actions, places, words, description, and ill-treatment(passion). Then, the parallels reveal the continuity and discontinuity between them. The characteristic of continuity signifies that Jesus is modeled to his disciples to follow/imitate him and succeed his mission. By the way, that of discontinuity represents that Jesus is the object of faith, that is, disciples should accept Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. In last, Chapter Five, as a conclusion, true disciples in Luke-Acts are, above all, portrayed as those who believe in Jesus as the Lord and Messiah, i.e., confessing Jesus as the object of faith. Rightly based on this faith, however, true disciples are also characterized as those who would follow Jesus and imitate him. Therefore to be a true disciple, not only should we believe Jesus as the Lord and Messiah, but also should we follow and imitate Jesus.
The purpose of this study is to examine the meaning of the true nature and essence of discipleship in Luke-Acts. Critical scholarship on the Lukan discipleship, until now, has been considerably dominated by historical interests and/or theological concerns tackled within ‘traditional’ historical criticism and especially by the method of redaction criticism. Meanwhile a narrative-critical approach as part of literary criticism has appeared and flourished in biblical studies including Luke-Acts during the last two decades. Though such approaches have produced significant academic fruits, the subject of the Lukan discipleship has been insufficiently dealt with in several reasons. In this sense, this study has an aim to revisit and highlight the essential nature or characteristic of the Lukan discipleship in critically evaluating the past major academic works. This thesis takes an ‘inter-textual interpretation approach’ to explore the parallels between Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts. It will show that Luke consciously or unconsciously predicates the same action, places, words, description, and ill-treatment(passion) of Jesus and his followers. As a result of this analysis, the parallels shown in Luke-Acts would disclose continuity and discontinuity between them. As continuity aspect, on the one hand, Jesus was portrayed as a ideal model of God’s human agent to his disciples to follow/imitate him and then succeed his mission. On the other hand, however, as discontinuity aspect, Jesus was delineated as the single unique Messiah (and the Lord) to be confessed, namely the object of faith. In other words, disciples should accept Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. Chapter Two set out to examine a background for the Lukan term ‘disciple’ in the Old Testament, Greco-Roman world and first-century Judaism which follows the academic research on the previous major academic works related to my subject in Chapter One. I have argued that the concept itself between the teacher-disciple relationship in Luke-Acts was more or less influenced by the Old Testament background, while the term itself ‘disciple’ was naturally accepted from the teacher-disciple relationship of Greco-Roman world. Chapter Three has explored the usage of ‘disciple’ and ‘apostle’ in Luke-Acts in examining other co-related terms such as ‘christians’, ‘those who follow the way’, ‘brothers’, ‘witnesses’ and so on. Luke has had freedom to write the usage of varied forms which refer to the concept of ‘disciples’. It shows that Luke has used a term of ‘disciple’ as a general term to denote ‘believers in Christ’ as members of new eschatological community. Therefore, the essential nature of disciples are those who believe in Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. Chapter Four deal in the textual parallels between Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts, such as actions, places, words, description, and ill-treatment(passion). Then, the parallels reveal the continuity and discontinuity between them. The characteristic of continuity signifies that Jesus is modeled to his disciples to follow/imitate him and succeed his mission. By the way, that of discontinuity represents that Jesus is the object of faith, that is, disciples should accept Jesus as the Lord and Messiah. In last, Chapter Five, as a conclusion, true disciples in Luke-Acts are, above all, portrayed as those who believe in Jesus as the Lord and Messiah, i.e., confessing Jesus as the object of faith. Rightly based on this faith, however, true disciples are also characterized as those who would follow Jesus and imitate him. Therefore to be a true disciple, not only should we believe Jesus as the Lord and Messiah, but also should we follow and imitate Jesus.
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