Acts

CHARACTERISTICS AND PECULIARITIES OF ACTS

Virgil Warren, PhD

INTERNAL EVIDENCE ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF

LUKE-ACTS AS INTERPRETED HISTORY

Virgil Warren, PhD

I.  Selectivity

            The fact that the book does not recount all the events means that selection has occurred. If selection has occurred, the writer does not just tell about a bunch of things that happened (“stream of consciousness”). Rather, he is a historian that makes a judgment about what events are epitomes and direction-setting events. Seeing the big picture, a historian chooses events that—from the vantage point of God above or of later perspective—prove to be more important because of their impact on subsequent events or prove more useful to any distinctive purpose the author may have.

PLACE OF ACTS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

Virgil Warren, PhD

THE “SPEECHES” IN ACTS

     THE PURPOSE OF ACTS

THE WITNESS OF ACTS TO THE KERYGMA