| Ling Cheng, PhD | | Date Created: Aug 22, 2006, 04:56 PM |
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| Acts is an odd book, narratively. If you only dipped into it and only read a chapter or two from somewhere in the book, you could be forgiven for thinking that the central character in the story was Paul or Peter or maybe even Philip. But, of course, when you read the whole of the book, you'd know that none of those characters really accounts for the shape of the larger book and you also notice something else -- there is a character who pervades the whole of the narrative even when one of those other character is in the foreground. Off-stage and yet involved in everything that happens throughout the story, that character is God. |
 One of my best PhD students ever, Ling (Linda) Cheng, has just been given the final thumbs up from her examiners on her work which examined how the author of Acts characterizes the off-stage Father God through the actions of and interactions between the on-stage characters, both supernatural and human.
Her examiners, strangely, were two Word Commentary authors. No stranger to LST, John Nolland of Trinity Theological College, Bristol who wrote the Word commentary volumes on Luke's Gospel was the external examiner (on the right). And my colleague from across the hall at LST, Steve Walton, who is writing the Word commentary on Acts, was the internal examiner (on the left).
Dr Ling Cheng flies back to Taiwan this week. Congrats! |
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