Moral Metaphors and Narrative Ethics in Luke-Acts

This monograph examines ethical discourse in Luke-Acts by bringing narrative ethics into sustained conversation with cognitive linguistics. It argues that the Lukan narrative forms moral perception not simply through rules or exemplars, but through narratological patterns and devices that presume readerly agency, freedom, and participation. Focusing on three recurring moral metaphors—the social family, moral accounting, and the life journey—the study offers a phenomenological account of how...