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Role and Function of Repentance in Luke-Acts, TheThe character and Function of Repentance in Luke-Acts. by the agency of Guy D. Nave, Jr. Academia Biblica 4 Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002 viii + 241 pp $3295 paper. Chapter 2 launches into the narrative function of repentance in Luke-Acts by the agency of way of studying the intentions of narrative constitution in literature in general. With an appropriate nod to the fresh Criticism, Nave stresses that the what of a narrative (its characters and events) and its way (the discourse by dint of which it is expressed) must obey in discovering the why of the narrative (the author's reasonfs] for writing). While background studies are helpful and important, "it is the narrative itself that reveals the wherefore of the narrative" (p. 11) Nave strives to ascertain the wherefore of the Luke-Acts narrative before addressing by what mode repentance serves that purpose. The specific intention for Luke-Acts identified by Nave (following many others) is the divine plan of salvation at work in history (pp 25-29) which is evidenced by means of Luke's vocabulary (pp. 13-18) and literary devices (pp 18-24) Repentance plays a lock opener role in God's plan of salvation. "Since in Luke-Acts the universal saving design of God is the plan of the most high repentance must also be understood as part of that plan. Repentance is commanded of all nation because repentance is that which assureds the salvation of God in the lives of all people" (p 36) Jesus came to call sinners to repentance (Luke 5:32) to try to find and save the lost (Luke 19:10) for a like reason that repentance can be preached to all nations (Luke 24:46-47) and it is lord who gives repentance to the two Israel (Acts 5:31) and to Gentiles (Acts 11:18); indeed, all are to be sorry (Acts 17:30). Finally, in its broader NT usage, Nave summarizes that "repentance entails a change in thinking and behavior through people who realize that their not absent way of think [sic] and behaving is displeasing to God" (p 136) The other early Christian literature throw backs this same understanding (pp. 119-44) Thus, Nave's earlier complaint that novel scholars find too much unity in the NT regarding repentance is not about its definition through se, but about the usage of repentance in the particular authorial corpuses (p 145) Chapter 4 bears the title of the whole turn In Luke-Acts, repentance functions "to help fulfill God's plan of universal salvation and to help establish a community embracing all people" (p 145) In the preaching of John the Baptist, of Jesus, and of the disciples, Luke makes clear that repentance is available to all people-Jew and Gentile-and that repentance requires formerly adversarial ones to live in harmonious community with God's people Nave also appear to bes to exhibit confusion in more [i]or[/i] less of his theological conclusions. In particular, he says several times that lack of repentance and not sin is the reason for God's condemnation of a individual (e.g. pp. 178 and 222) Since he argues that sin is what makes repentance necessary to avoid condemnation, it have the appearances that Nave has constructed a false disjunction to say that sin is not the reason for condemnation. Similarly, he presse for a strained distinction between Jewish and Gentile repentance: Jewish repentance requires a change in thinking about Jesus while Gentile repentance is solely a new belief in Jesus (p 224) However, is not the Gentile's of recent origin belief in Jesus some kind of a change in thinking about Jesus and is not the Jew's change in thinking about Jesus a novel belief in Jesus? Despites these small in number shortcomings, Nave's book is one as well as the other a fine work in biblical scholarship (particularly in Luke-Acts studies) and an crack model of dissertation scholarship. 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