To All the Nations : Lutheran Hermeneutics and the Gospel of Matthew.

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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.

Dalit Christians and their world of texts.

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