TY - BOOK AU - Koester,Craig AU - Mtata,Kenneth TI - To All the Nations: Lutheran Hermeneutics and the Gospel of Matthew T2 - LWF Studies 2/2015 SN - 9783374043750 AV - BS2575.2 .T63 2015eb U1 - 226.206 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Leipzig PB - Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH KW - Bible KW - Matthew KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Sermon on the mount KW - fast KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Studies KW - Jesus, the Gospels & Acts KW - bisacsh KW - New Testament KW - Electronic books N1 - Dalit Christians and their world of texts; Cover ; Impressum ; Contents; Preface; Introduction to Matthew and Lutheran Hermeneutics; Introduction; Contemporary Approaches to Matthew: A "Lutheran" Critique; The rise of the status quo; Profiling Matthew in literary, socio-religious and theological terms; Matthew and the transmission of Jesus traditions; The Sermon on the Mount as a case study; A Lutheran critique of current Matthean exegesis; Reading Matthew in Light of a (Recovered) Hermeneutic of Law and Gospel; The "Lutheran error" and the Sermon on the Mount; Recovering the hermeneutical principle of law and gospel; Law and gospel do not designate genres of biblical literatureLaw and gospel are not expressions of authorial intent; Third use of the law and didactic preaching; Interpreting Matthew (for proclamation) in light of law and gospel; Matthew's Gospel for the Reformation: "The Messiah ... Sent and Manifested"; The hermeneutical and Christological heart of Matthew; The hermeneutics of law and gospel; The Christological witness of Matthew; Concluding remarks; Text, Context and Tradition: Implications for Reading Matthew; Introduction; Text, context and tradition; The text: A great work of intertextualityThe context: contextualization of the gospel; The tradition: a contradiction of traditions?; The implications of reading Matthew; Reading Matthew as a book of the presence of God in Jesus Christ; Sermon on the Mount; How Do We Deal with a Challenging Text?; What does taking the Bible "literally" mean?; The Sermon on the Mount: a challenge for Lutheran hermeneutics; Luther on the Sermon on the Mount; A Lutheran interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount? Preliminary remarks; Luther's exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; Matthew-not John and Paul; The BeatitudesConclusion; Matthew and the Hermeneutics of Love; Foundations or Israel's legacy; Matthew's hermeneutics, or Torah and love of the neighbor; Innovation, or Jesus Tradition (Q); Matthew's hermeneutics again, or Torah and "loving your enemy"; Luther's interpretation, or perfect love as a distinguishing mark; Love instead of hate, or implications and consequences of Matthew's hermeneutics of love for the Abrahamic religions; Perfection of Christian Life in the Face of Anger and Retaliation. Martin Luther's Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount; Luther's interpretation of the antithesis on retaliationSolidarity in persecution and suffering and resisting anger and retaliation as a mark of the church; Summary; On Loving your Enemy; The Secret Link between Faith and Love: Luther on the Beatitudes (Mt 5:43-48); Introduction; Addressing the hermeneutical conundrum; Faith and love; Communio; Rhetorical device; Love's labor's limits; Spheres and regimes; Blessed and holy; Love's labor's won; Theology of the Cross, Liberation and Discipleship; A Theology of the Cross and the Passion in Matthew: An Indian Dalit Perspective UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1457382 ER -