The Path to Salvation in Luke's Gospel

ISBN: 9780567687371 出版年：2019 页码：239 MiJa Wi Bloomsbury Publishing

This book investigates Luke's message of salvation in relation to socio-economic issues, and thus concerns salvation of the rich poor. With a narrative reading of Luke's Gospel built on careful examination of its socio-economic context, it demonstratmessage of salvation is best understood as: 1) Divine mercy which champions the cause of the poor and redresses the injustice of the world, 2) Its human embodiment, and 3) Divine reward promised to those who enact mercy.Wi arguquestion of 'what must we do?' juxtaposes salvation with 'doing', posing interesting questions with respect to the salvation of the richighlights gopoor in terms of divine mercy and justice, shows that the reception of divine mercy calls for practices, which embody it, and above all clarifies Luke's notion of salvation of the rich whias participation in the salvation of the poor. Wi's conclusion challenges its readers by asking the question aloaudience: What must we do?