Steve Walton is professor of New Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, UK.

This volume offers major contributions from one of today’s top Acts scholars. It treats Acts from multiple angles, showing competence in a wide array of topics. Anyone working on Acts should engage with this valuable work.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPart I: Looking at ActsChapter 1: Reading Acts TheologicallyChapter 2: The Acts—of God? What is the 'Acts of the Apostles' All About?Chapter 3: Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as Theologian and StorytellerPart II: The Believing Communities and Their WorldChapter 4: Calling the Church Names: Learning about Christian Identity from ActsChapter 5: Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts Present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken?Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Perspectives? The Temple in ActsChapter 7: Deciding about Deciding: Early Christian Communal Decision-Making in ActsChapter 8: Trying Paul or Trying Rome? Judges and Accused in the Roman Trials of Paul in ActsChapter 9: What Does ‘Mission’ in Acts Mean in Relation to the ‘Powers That Be’?Part III Theological Themes in ActsChapter 10: Jesus Present and/or Absent? The Presence and Presentation of Jesus as a Character in the Book of ActsChapter 11: Identity and Christology: The Ascended Jesus in the Book of ActsChapter 12: ‘The Heavens Opened’: Cosmological and Theological Transformation in Luke and ActsChapter 13: Turning Anthropology Right Side Up: Seeing Human Life and Existence LukewiseBibliographyIndexes

Steve Walton is professor of New Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, UK.

This volume offers major contributions from one of today’s top Acts scholars. It treats Acts from multiple angles, showing competence in a wide array of topics. Anyone working on Acts should engage with this valuable work.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPart I: Looking at ActsChapter 1: Reading Acts TheologicallyChapter 2: The Acts—of God? What is the 'Acts of the Apostles' All About?Chapter 3: Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as Theologian and StorytellerPart II: The Believing Communities and Their WorldChapter 4: Calling the Church Names: Learning about Christian Identity from ActsChapter 5: Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts Present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken?Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Perspectives? The Temple in ActsChapter 7: Deciding about Deciding: Early Christian Communal Decision-Making in ActsChapter 8: Trying Paul or Trying Rome? Judges and Accused in the Roman Trials of Paul in ActsChapter 9: What Does ‘Mission’ in Acts Mean in Relation to the ‘Powers That Be’?Part III Theological Themes in ActsChapter 10: Jesus Present and/or Absent? The Presence and Presentation of Jesus as a Character in the Book of ActsChapter 11: Identity and Christology: The Ascended Jesus in the Book of ActsChapter 12: ‘The Heavens Opened’: Cosmological and Theological Transformation in Luke and ActsChapter 13: Turning Anthropology Right Side Up: Seeing Human Life and Existence LukewiseBibliographyIndexes

Steve Walton is professor of New Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, UK.

This volume offers major contributions from one of today’s top Acts scholars. It treats Acts from multiple angles, showing competence in a wide array of topics. Anyone working on Acts should engage with this valuable work.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPart I: Looking at ActsChapter 1: Reading Acts TheologicallyChapter 2: The Acts—of God? What is the 'Acts of the Apostles' All About?Chapter 3: Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as Theologian and StorytellerPart II: The Believing Communities and Their WorldChapter 4: Calling the Church Names: Learning about Christian Identity from ActsChapter 5: Primitive Communism in Acts? Does Acts Present the Community of Goods (2:44-45; 4:32-35) as Mistaken?Chapter 6: A Tale of Two Perspectives? The Temple in ActsChapter 7: Deciding about Deciding: Early Christian Communal Decision-Making in ActsChapter 8: Trying Paul or Trying Rome? Judges and Accused in the Roman Trials of Paul in ActsChapter 9: What Does ‘Mission’ in Acts Mean in Relation to the ‘Powers That Be’?Part III Theological Themes in ActsChapter 10: Jesus Present and/or Absent? The Presence and Presentation of Jesus as a Character in the Book of ActsChapter 11: Identity and Christology: The Ascended Jesus in the Book of ActsChapter 12: ‘The Heavens Opened’: Cosmological and Theological Transformation in Luke and ActsChapter 13: Turning Anthropology Right Side Up: Seeing Human Life and Existence LukewiseBibliographyIndexes