The Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer are at the heart of the New Testament and the key to the message and life of Jesus. In this book, Rudolf Schnackenburg provides a clearly written and easy-to-understand exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount in light of the Lord's Prayer. By doing so, he demonstrates that the strenuous requirements for true discipleship as prescribed in the Sermon on the Mount are indeed attainable especially when read in the contest of Jesus' whole message.
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New Testament scholar Schnackenburg here offers a penetrating set of reflections on the relationship of the Lord's Prayer to the Sermon on the Mount. After a brief history of the interpretation of each scriptural unit, the author focuses on the meanings of these biblical materials for their earliest audiences. Schnackenburg concludes that Jesus' message that "all things are possible to the one who believes" forms the common basis of the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount. Crisp and insightful meditations from a masterful interpreter; recommended for large public and seminary libraries.
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Schnackenburg's reflections on the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount emerged, as he notes in his preface, in the context of the peace discussion of the 1970s and 1980s in Germany. That context played an important role in shaping the reflections, but, though much has changed in the intervening decades, the reflections in this new English translation remain relevant and timely. Reading the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord's Prayer together proves to be a fruitful technique by which to illuminate both, particularly to the extent that the intimate and confident tone of the prayer Jesus taught his disciples informs the extraordinary ethic he elaborated in the programmatic sermon reported by Matthew and Luke. Schnackenburg's pithy recapitulation of the history of interpretation of the sermon is an excellent introduction to Christian ethics. That, along with the insights into the Lord's Prayer and Schnackenburg's own contribution to the continuing history of interpretation, makes this an important book for anyone interested in Christian ethics after Auschwitz. Steve Schroeder
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All Things are Possible to Believers,
By Robert J. Dombrowski "eager student of the Bible" (Eureka Springs, AR) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: All Things Are Possible to Believers: Reflections on the Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on Mount (Paperback)
A succinct presentation by a pre-eminent Scripture scholar on the Sermon on the Mount. There is also an in-depth presentation on the Lord's Prayer. I highly recommend this book to any sincere student of the Bible
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THE WINNER OF THE PEACE PRIZE of the German book trade in 1981, Russian and student of the German language Lev Kopelew, described the Sermon on the Mount in his impressive speech as the "highest, the purest height achievable by the human spirit." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord's Prayer, God the Father, New Testament, Joachim Jeremias, Old Testament, Die Bergpredigt, Paul Hoffmann, Fortress Press, Franz Alt, Leonhard Ragaz, Das Gebet des Herrn, Gunther Bornkamm, Holy Spirit, Jean Carmignac, Mount of Olives, New York, Third World, Gerhard Lohfink, Neuen Testament, Wolfgang Schrage New!
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THE WINNER OF THE PEACE PRIZE of the German book trade in 1981, Russian and student of the German language Lev Kopelew, described the Sermon on the Mount in his impressive speech as the "highest, the purest height achievable by the human spirit." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord's Prayer, God the Father, New Testament, Joachim Jeremias, Old Testament, Die Bergpredigt, Paul Hoffmann, Fortress Press, Franz Alt, Leonhard Ragaz, Das Gebet des Herrn, Gunther Bornkamm, Holy Spirit, Jean Carmignac, Mount of Olives, New York, Third World, Gerhard Lohfink, Neuen Testament, Wolfgang Schrage New!
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- Sermon on the Mount by Joachim Jeremias on 4 pages
- The Ethics of the New Testament by Wolfgang Schrage on page 19, and page 40
- The Sermon on the Mount by John Martin on page 14
- The Gospel and the Poor by Wolfgang Stegemann on page 54
- The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer on page 23
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- The Hidden Jesus: A New Life by Donald Spoto in Back Matter
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