Overview

Need a quick summary of the best insights from today's Gospel scholarship? These commentaries on the Gospels by William Loader, a leading international scholar, seek to provide just that, offering a careful contemporary translation and a concise, informed commentary, as a resource for preachers, for people wanting an intelligent faith, and for group study and discussion. Following Luke engages the text as cross-cultural, reading it in the world of its time and acknowledging distance but also highlighting where its wisdom leaps across two thousand years to the modern day.

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""Readers of William Loader's colloquial and engaging translation will find themselves experiencing Luke's story of Jesus in new and immediate ways, accompanied by his helpful explanations and suggestions for reflection as they follow Jesus in Luke's company."" --Judith Lieu, Professor Emerita of New Testament, Cambridge University ""In this excellent book, William Loader gives us a highly readable translation of the Gospel of Luke and an accessible guide to how to interpret the text. Packed full of understanding and insight, Following Luke has clear and immensely helpful discussions of both the overall message of the Gospel of Luke and of individual passages. Preachers, teachers, and students alike will find this a veritable treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration."" --Paul Trebilco, Professor of New Testament Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand ""'Just tell me the main things I need to know, please, without lots of padding, and in readable form.' That's the request that Bill Loader has responded to in the latest book in his Following series on the four Gospels. As always, he meets the brief, working his way through all twenty-four chapters of Luke's Gospel in just 200 very readable pages. For each passage he offers his own lively original translation of a passage ('Listening to Luke'), a careful and concise reflection on that passage ('Thinking About Luke'), and a focus question to ponder or discuss. The book is in an accessible format, written in Loader's inimitable conversational style, yet touching on so many important technical issues of interpretation. Preachers will find much in this book to equip them in their important task."" --John Squires, Retired Minister, Uniting Church ""Bill Loader distills insights from decades of study and reflection on Luke. Juxtaposing a new translation, detailed textual analysis, and his own insights, he offers an accessible commentary for study and contemplation."" --Ian Tozer, Former Moderator, Uniting Church Western Australia ""Bill Loader has the rare gift of making scholarship invisible. Following Luke is deeply grounded in biblical scholarship yet communicates as easily and directly to the reader as the author of Luke did to Theophilus. Following Luke is also about much more than Luke. Loader helps us to read Luke within the context of the other Synoptic Gospels and thus serves as an introduction to all the Gospels. Just as much, Loader helps us to read Luke within the contexts of our own lives as we read Luke 'on the road.'"" --Rob McFarlane, Presbytery Relations Minister, Uniting Church Synod of NSW & ACT

Author Information

William Loader is professor emeritus at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He is an internationally recognized New Testament scholar with extensive publications.

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