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Reading the Sermon on the Mount - Character Formation and Decision Making in Matthew 5-7 (Hardcover, New)
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Reading the Sermon on the Mount - Character Formation and Decision Making in Matthew 5-7 (Hardcover, New)
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In Reading the Sermon on the Mount, Charles H. Talbert explores the
religious message put forth in the first large teaching section of
the Gospel according to Matthew and finds it to have a relevance
often overlooked in academic studies. Seeking to hear and
understand the text of Matthew 5-7 as someone living in the
Mediterranean about 100 C.E. would have encountered it, Talbert
argues for a broader interpretation of the Sermon than scholars
typically advance. He suggests that the Sermon cannot be reduced to
a discussion of ethics but includes considerations of piety. He
contends that it is a text about covenant fidelity to God and to
other humans, in which Jesus seeks to affect perceptions,
dispositions, and intentions. The text thus functions primarily as
a catalyst for character formation rather than as a compendium of
obligations. To prepare readers for a thorough examination of the
Sermon, Talbert investigates Matthew's relation to Judaism and
inquires into the composition of the audience who received Jesus'
charge. He also takes into account the order of Jesus' discourse,
the distinction between character formation and decision making,
and the question of whether or not the Jesus who speaks in the
Sermon is a legalist. In his reading of the text, Talbert attends
to the six large units of thought in Matthew 5-7, exploring the
relationship of each to possible concerns of character formation
and decision making. Section by section, he analyzes form and
content, comparing Jesus' directives with similar statements in
Jewish and Greco-Roman literature. Talbert concludes that only when
the text is read in three contexts - the whole of Matthew, the
whole of the New Testament, and the entire biblical plot - can the
Sermon on the Mount make a contribution to decision making.
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