In a striking departure from customary readings of the Acts of the Apostles as the story of the growth of the church, Gaventa argues that Luke\'s second volume has to do with nothing less than the activity of God.
Gaventa pays careful att.
From the beginning of the story at Jesus\' Ascension and extending until well past the final report of Paul\'s activity in Rome, Luke narrates a relentlessly theological story, in which matters of institutional history or biography play only an incidental role.
In a striking departure from customary readings of the Acts of the Apostles as the story of the growth of the church, Gaventa argues that Luke\'s second volume has to do with nothing less than the activity of God