Disrupted by Luke–Acts

Abstract

This study of the Luke–Acts corpus recounts the continually expanding inclusiveness of the Christian faith from Jerusalem to Europe and to the whole world. This reading includes the disruption of a basic Jewish exclusivist orientation in the choosing of the disciples, through redefinitions of “neighbor” in Samaritans, a supernaturalism-infused incident on the road to Gaza with a eunuch of ambiguous gender/sexuality, a metaphor of the sheet let down from heaven leading to table fellowship with a Roman centurion, to Paul’s disrupted Asian mission that took him to Macedonia and the inclusion of Europe.