Luke's Utopianism in this past Sunday's Lections

" But the greater correction lies in our reading for this week. Luke has desired that his readers understand that Christianity is the true manifestation of the universalism valued by Dionysian followers, but he has to do more than evade the critique of excessivism. He wants to set Christianity above that ideal, and he does so by shifting his focus from Dionysian rites to philosophic utopianism, particularly that of Plato. I discovered this week that there is pretty clear literary dependence of some sections of Acts on the works of Plato and his utopian ideals which were based essentially on reason and rationality. "

From last Sunday's Divergence on the Lectionary.