Der Sühnetod des Gottesknechts

In a critical analysis of past and present research on Luke, Ulrike Mittmann-Richert develops a new Lucan soteriology. She opposes the theory that the cross of Christ does not have the same importance in Luke as it does in the other New Testament writings. She bases her study on the insight that, for Luke, Isaiah 53 is the key text for an appropriate understanding of the cross. Luke consistently designates Jesus on his way to the cross as the Suffering Servant who was sent to redeem Israel and the nations. The atoning death of Jesus is the eschatological turning point on which the wohle Gospel of Luke is focused. The author draws up this soteriological analysis of Luke's Gospel by interpreting its main texts, above all the Passion and Easter stories.