Preaching Luke - Acts

By David Schnasa Jacobsen, Günter Wasserberg Published
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In Preaching Luke–Acts, David Schnasa Jacobsen and Günter Wasserberg introduce preachers to the big picture about Luke–Acts.  They provide helpful guidance in seeing how an understanding of the larger scheme and purpose of these books can inform and enliven one’s preaching of the texts. They demonstrate that the author of Luke–Acts wrote out of a specific set of pastoral concerns, and they then relate these concerns to a contemporary context. For example, they provide specific help in understanding the strain of anti-Judaism that runs through the writing. They provide well-detailed examinations of several Luke–Acts texts drawn from the lectionary, placing them in the context of the overall pastoral and theological purpose of the book and outlining a possible sermon to be preached from the text.

Reviews

“Here's a "must have" book for ministers who preach Luke/Acts. The authors, an exegete and a homiletician, have written a smart, remarkably insightful volume, guaranteed to transform our understanding of Luke's gospel message. Edgy scholarship and lively homiletic guidance -- a good book!”
-David G. Buttrick, Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics, Emeritus
Vanderbilt University Divinity School

“This book present a provocative interpretation of Luke-Acts as a ‘grief document,’ marked by the failure of the mission to Jews. By posing sharp questions and making helpful suggestions, it enables Christian preachers to think more deeply about their task.”
-Robert Tannehill, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

“Astute but non-technical, this inventive product of joint authorship confronts readers with provocative challenges in interpreting Jesus and the Jewish people in Luke-Acts. It is a stimulating case of narrative exegesis that is engaged with post-Holocaust sensitivities and of post-Holocaust preaching that is engaged with biblical narrative. From candid positions of personal grief and personal faith, the authors boldly question Lukan perspectives on Jewish people, and strive to provide ways of mediating new encounters with the risen Christ that will change hearts.”
-Robert L. Brawley, Albert G. McGraw Professor of New Testament, McCormick Theological Seminary

About the Author

David Schnasa Jacobsen

David Schnasa Jacobsen is Professor of Homiletics and Doctoral Faculty in Homiletics at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in Waterloo, Ontario.