Table of Contents
How does one write on the theology of Acts? / Howard Marshall -- The plan of God in the Acts of the Apostles / John Squires -- Scripture and the realisation of God's promises / Darrell Bock -- Salvation-history and eschatology / John Nolland -- "Salvation to the end of the earth" (Acts 13:47) : God as saviour in the Acts of the Apostles / Joel B. Green -- The divine saviour / H. Douglas Buckwalter -- The need for salvation / Christoph Stenschke -- Salvation and health in Christian antiquity : the soteriology of Luke-Acts in its first century setting / Ben Witherington, III -- The role of the apostles / Andrew C. Clark -- Mission and witness / Peter G. Bolt -- The progress of the word / Brian S. Rosner -- Opposition to the plan of God and persecution / Brian Rapske -- The preaching of Peter in Acts / Hans F. Bayer -- The speech of Stephen / Heinz-Werner Neudorfer -- The preaching and defence of Paul / G. Walter Hansen -- The "spirit of prophecy" as the power of Israel's restoration and witness / Max Turner -- The new people of God / David Seccombe -- The worship of the new community / David Peterson -- The Christian and the law of Moses / Craig L. Blomberg -- Mission practice and theology under construction (Acts 18-20) / Philip H. Towner -- Israel and the Gentile mission in Acts and Paul : a canonical approach / Robert Wall -- Sociology and theology / Stephen C. Barton -- The influence of Jewish worship on Luke's presentation of the early church / Brad Blue -- Reciprocity and the ethic of Acts / Brian Capper -- Luke's theological enterprise : integration and intent / David Peterson.