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To all the nations : Lutheran hermeneutics and the gospel of Matthew / edited by Kenneth Mtata and Craig Koester.

Contributor(s): Mtata, Kenneth [editor.] | Koester, Craig R, 1953- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: LWF studies: 2015/2.Publisher: Geneva, Switzerland : Lutheran World Federation, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 198 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783374042333; 3374042333Subject(s): Bible. Matthew -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Sermon on the mountLOC classification: BS2575.52 | .T63 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 197).
Contents:
Preface / Martin Junge -- Introduction to Matthew and Lutheran hermeneutics. Introduction / Craig Koester and Kenneth Mtata -- Contemporary approaches to Matthew: a "Lutheran" critique / Eve-Marie Becker -- Reading Matthew in light of a (recovered) hermeneutic of law and gospel / Mark Allan Powell -- Matthew's gospel for the Reformation: "the Messiah ... sent and manifested" / Timothy Wengert -- Text, context and tradition: implications for reading Matthew / Roger Marcel Wanke -- Sermon on the Mount. How do we deal with a challenging text? / Bernd Oberdorfer -- Matthew and the hermeneutics of love / Oda Wischmeyer -- Perfection of Christian life in the face of anger and retaliation: Martin Luther's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount / Hans-Peter Grosshans -- On loving your enemy. The secret link between faith and love: Luther on the Beatitudes (Mt 5:43-48) / Vítor Westhelle -- Theology of the cross, liberation and discipleship. A theology of the cross and the passion in Matthew: an Indian Dalit perspective / Joseph Prabhakar Dayam -- The flight to Egypt: a migrant reading: implications for a Lutheran understanding of salvation / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Matthew, Judaism and Lutheran tradition. Matthew's Pharisees: seven woes and seven warnings / Laurence Edwards -- Preaching reconciliation: from "law and gospel" to "justice and mercy" in Matthew / Esther Menn.

Essays originally presented at the 2014 consultation at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references (page 197).

Preface / Martin Junge -- Introduction to Matthew and Lutheran hermeneutics. Introduction / Craig Koester and Kenneth Mtata -- Contemporary approaches to Matthew: a "Lutheran" critique / Eve-Marie Becker -- Reading Matthew in light of a (recovered) hermeneutic of law and gospel / Mark Allan Powell -- Matthew's gospel for the Reformation: "the Messiah ... sent and manifested" / Timothy Wengert -- Text, context and tradition: implications for reading Matthew / Roger Marcel Wanke -- Sermon on the Mount. How do we deal with a challenging text? / Bernd Oberdorfer -- Matthew and the hermeneutics of love / Oda Wischmeyer -- Perfection of Christian life in the face of anger and retaliation: Martin Luther's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount / Hans-Peter Grosshans -- On loving your enemy. The secret link between faith and love: Luther on the Beatitudes (Mt 5:43-48) / Vítor Westhelle -- Theology of the cross, liberation and discipleship. A theology of the cross and the passion in Matthew: an Indian Dalit perspective / Joseph Prabhakar Dayam -- The flight to Egypt: a migrant reading: implications for a Lutheran understanding of salvation / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon -- Matthew, Judaism and Lutheran tradition. Matthew's Pharisees: seven woes and seven warnings / Laurence Edwards -- Preaching reconciliation: from "law and gospel" to "justice and mercy" in Matthew / Esther Menn.

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