Abstract
Most scholars characterize Luke 14,1-6 too quickly as a conflict story about the Sabbath and thus too little attention is paid to what may be the crucial meaning of the healing of a person with dropsy (14,3) here. Such a person is a practical example of what is theoretically treated in the following parable (14,8-14). A person suffering from dropsy due to hunger is certainly one of the poor who should be invited to the festive meals (14,13). then it will become a reality that those who eat bread in the kingdom of God are blessed (14,15): the poor and the rich can eat together and enjoy together the festive meal that symbolizes and gives concrete form to this kingdom.
| Translated title of the contribution | Poor and Rich according to Luke: Everyone invited for the royal weddingfeast |
|---|---|
| Original language | Dutch |
| Pages (from-to) | 243-258 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Collationes: Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Theologie en Pastoraal |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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- Rich
- Poor
- Christianity
- Luke 14
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Arm en rijk volgens Lucas : Iedereen uitgenodigd voor het koninklijke bruiloftsmaal. / Koet, Bart.
In: Collationes: Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Theologie en Pastoraal, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2018, p. 243-258.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Arm en rijk volgens Lucas
T2 - Iedereen uitgenodigd voor het koninklijke bruiloftsmaal
AU - Koet, Bart
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In this article I give an overview of Luke's view on rich and poor, as we can reconstruct it from both his works. Because Jesus' (and Luke's) message to the poor did not come out of the sky, in the first paragraph we pay some attention tot the Jewish background of this question. In the following section I outline the content of the Lukan good message for the poor. then I focus on what he has to say to the rich. Finally, after briefly showing how the Lukan program of sharing is presented in Acts, I discuss in the last paragraph a nice example of 'sharing together' from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 14, 1-4).Most scholars characterize Luke 14,1-6 too quickly as a conflict story about the Sabbath and thus too little attention is paid to what may be the crucial meaning of the healing of a person with dropsy (14,3) here. Such a person is a practical example of what is theoretically treated in the following parable (14,8-14). A person suffering from dropsy due to hunger is certainly one of the poor who should be invited to the festive meals (14,13). then it will become a reality that those who eat bread in the kingdom of God are blessed (14,15): the poor and the rich can eat together and enjoy together the festive meal that symbolizes and gives concrete form to this kingdom.
AB - In this article I give an overview of Luke's view on rich and poor, as we can reconstruct it from both his works. Because Jesus' (and Luke's) message to the poor did not come out of the sky, in the first paragraph we pay some attention tot the Jewish background of this question. In the following section I outline the content of the Lukan good message for the poor. then I focus on what he has to say to the rich. Finally, after briefly showing how the Lukan program of sharing is presented in Acts, I discuss in the last paragraph a nice example of 'sharing together' from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 14, 1-4).Most scholars characterize Luke 14,1-6 too quickly as a conflict story about the Sabbath and thus too little attention is paid to what may be the crucial meaning of the healing of a person with dropsy (14,3) here. Such a person is a practical example of what is theoretically treated in the following parable (14,8-14). A person suffering from dropsy due to hunger is certainly one of the poor who should be invited to the festive meals (14,13). then it will become a reality that those who eat bread in the kingdom of God are blessed (14,15): the poor and the rich can eat together and enjoy together the festive meal that symbolizes and gives concrete form to this kingdom.
KW - Rich
KW - Poor
KW - Christianity
KW - Luke 14
M3 - Article
VL - 48
SP - 243
EP - 258
JO - Collationes: Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Theologie en Pastoraal
JF - Collationes: Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Theologie en Pastoraal
SN - 0776-8354
IS - 3
ER -