The Resurrection According to Luke: The Meaning and Significance of Pneumatology in Luke’s Resurrection Theology

The aim of this study, then, is to demonstrate the meaning and significance of Pneumatology in Luke’s resurrection theology based on the following: a) Luke’s “it is written” qualifier of the third-day resurrection, and his description of the Spirit’s activity upon the virgin Mary in his birth narrative, connect Luke with the Spirit’s activity in the creation narrative and nascent resurrection themes in Scripture; b) Luke’s use of the three-fold identity for the son of God (Jesus, Christ, and Lord) and the centrality of Peter’s Pentecost sermon for Luke wherein the resurrection confirmed this identity and enabled Jesus to pour out the Spirit; and c) the centrality of Jesus’s resurrection to the speeches in Acts for which the speakers were empowered by the Spirit as they delivered ὁ λόγος, “the word,” about Jesus’s resurrection.