Baker’s Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture series is an attempt to meet the need for “accessible yet substantive” commentaries on the books of the NT. In addition to exegetical insights, one of the series’s strengths is its intentional engagement with the history of interpretation (especially the Apostolic Fathers and Medieval theologians). Significant in this regard is the aim of the series to “draw on the interpretation of Protestant and Orthodox scholars” and not strictly Roman Catholic scholarship (p. 11).
Fr. Pablo Gadenz’s commentary on Luke is an excellent fulfillment of the aims of the series. Gadenz begins with a short introduction in which he sets out some working assumptions about Luke, including: Luke was a historian who wrote in the biographical genre (p. 19), also wrote Acts (p. 16), accompanied Paul (p. 16), and wrote before AD 80. After the introduction, each section of the commentary follows a pattern of...
