ACTS: SCM Theological Commentary on the Bible by JAROSLAV PELIKAN

SCM Theological Commentary on the Bible. ACTS By Jaroslav Pelikan. \nAbout:Jaroslav Pelikan initiates the forty-volume SCM Theological Commentary Series with his work on Acts. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve readers by demostrating the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible. \nFigures of the classical church such as Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley interpreted the Bible theologically, believing Scripture as a whole witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Modern and postmodern interpreters of the Bible questioned this premise. But in recent decades, a critical mass of theologians and biblical scholars has begun to reassert the priority of a theological reading of Scripture. \nThe SCM Theological Commentary series enlists leading theologians to use and encourage a doctrinal interpretation of scripture. The central premise of this series being that doctrine provides a structure ap