God's Plan in Luke-Acts

该项目旨在全面阐述路加福音-使徒行传的中心神学主题，即上帝的计划。在方法上，审查应分两个步骤进行。根据之前研究的见解，路加研究神学的主要方式是通过叙述，第一步将是通过运用叙事学的方法，仔细阅读经文。有效的假设是，戏剧性的反讽，被理解为文本人物和读者之间在知识或理解上的差异，是路加叙述的关键技巧，来阐述他对神的计划的概念。第二步，通过与不同叙事体裁的范例文本的比较，将研究结果语境化。可行的假设是，《路加福音-使徒行传》的作者避免使用“天意”这个词，而是使用了古代读者通常会联想到神的指引的叙事结构。与之前的许多研究不同，本研究的目的不是揭示文学依赖，而是在当代话语中以自己的文学和神学视角欣赏《路加福音-使徒行传》作为一部原创作品。总之，本研究旨在对“救赎历史”、“天意”和“上帝的计划”等概念进行批判性的重新评估，并最终根据第一世纪的文化背景，而不是根据神学先入为主的观念，对同一现象进行重新描述。

This project aims at a comprehensive elaboration of a central theological motif in Luke-Acts, i.e. the plan of God. Methodologically, the examination shall advance in two steps. Drawing upon the insight of previous research that Luke’s predominant way of doing theology is by narrating, the first step will be a close reading of the text by applying the methods of narratology. The working hypothesis is that dramatic irony, which is understood as a difference in either knowledge or comprehension between the characters of a text and its readers, is Luke’s narrative key technique to elaborate his concept of a divine plan.In a second step, the results shall be contextualized by a comparison with exemplary texts of different narrative genres. The working hypothesis is that the author of Luke-Acts avoids the term “providence” but uses narrative structures that ancient readers would typically relate to the idea of a divine guidance. In contrast to much previous research, the aim is not to uncover literary dependencies, but to appreciate Luke-Acts as an original work with its own literary and theological perspective within a contemporary discourse.In conclusion, the study aims at a critical reassessment of the notions “salvation history”, “providence”, and “plan of God”, and shall eventually lead to a re-description of the same phenomenon in terms of the cultural context of the first-century addressees, and not in terms developed from theological preconceptions.