Kingdom Gospel 2
Tuesday May 12, 2009
Categories: Kingdom of God
We can't possibly trot through the whole of Luke's Gospel so I want to focus on one element of Luke' Story because it opens up the entire Gospel. Luke's Gospel, like the rest of the Bible, focuses on the covenant...
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Scot - that's a really helpful summary of the bad/good news according to Luke. But how does he think God will use Christ's covenant community to 'strip rulers of their unjust thrones'? Don't most of the unjust rulers in Luke/Acts hold onto their thrones? Herod Agrippa gets his comeuppance in Acts 12, but that seems the exception not the rule. It's easy to think that in modern times God has used Christ's church to bring down unjust rulers (Communists in Poland and Romania and Ukraine, the apartheid regime in South Africa, racist rule in the American South, Marcos in the Phillipines). But is this what Luke (or Mary) has in mind? If not, how does he see the Magnificat coming about?
John C:
Off the top of my head I wonder if this would be what Luke (or Mary) had in mind:
Jerusalem (and its throne) are overthrown and crushed c. 70 AD
Roman Oppressors began a long slow decline that involves them being overthrown from within (by Christians) and from without (by Barbarians)
Maybe more the first than the latter in Luke's mind...
John C, the answer to how they get their comeuppance is simple. They die. They stay dead. Jesus died and rose, and we rise with him.
Herod is a dead man on his throne. Then he is a dead man on his throne while worms eat him. Then he is a dead man in his grave remembered only for his wormy, living death.
I'll take Jesus!
This was a great post Scot, very helpful! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series with eager anticipation!
Is this article taken from a McK book, or is it the beginning of one?
Why did you insert the word "unjust" in front of "kings" in the summary of the Magnificat. Mary seemed to be prophesying the collapse of all kings. That is the natural implication of Jesus kingships. A kingdom cannot have two kings.
What does wiki mean. Like when you say Luke's wiki story. where did that word come from? (an honest, honest question) I'm not bright enough to argue or comment.
kitty,
In his book the Blue Parakeet Scot uses the term wiki-story to reflect the idea that the Bible is the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day.
So each biblical author from the old testament through the new testament tells his version of the story God wants us to know.
The term wiki comes from analogy with the way Wikipedia works (when it works well).
Excited that you're working on this! Does it seem to you - as it does to me - that the first 3 chaps of Luke are setting up "kingdom conflicts"? A "political" conflict with a new king born under Herod, a "religious" conflict between the Baptist and Jewish leaders, and a "supernatural" conflict between Jesus and Satan.
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