Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10 [Paperback]

D. A. Carson (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2004

A popular explanation of the teaching of Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount and the events that follow.

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About the Author

D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, has served as a pastor, and is the author or editor of more than forty books. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Baker Books (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801065313
• ISBN-13: 978-0801065316
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,679 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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D. A. Carson (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author or coauthor of over 45 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning book The Gagging of God and An Introduction to the New Testament, and is general editor of Telling the Truth: Evangelizing Postmoderns and Worship by the Book. He has served as a pastor and is an active guest lecturer in church and academic settings around the world.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two great books in one volume, May 7, 2001

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Parableman (Syracuse, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: And His Confrontation with the World, an Exposition of Matthew 5-10, Two Books in One (Paperback)

This book contains Carson's book on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) from 1978 and his 1987 _When Jesus Confronts the World_ on Matthew 8-10. Both books are excellent, and it's nice to have them in one volume.

The original Sermon on the Mount book discussed some historical, critical, and theological questions within the main text, and Carson has now separated that material into appendices, making the main body of the text more like that of the second book. Both books originated out of sermons, and therefore they are quite accessible, yet the fact that they're from one of the foremost evangelical biblical scholars today ensures that they flow out of the best biblical scholarship.

This book is an excellent place to get into this section of Matthew without the full study of a commentary and all the distractions therein. It focuses on the main theological and practical points in the text, making it useful for understanding the point of the text for the Christian life, yet it does it from someone who is a published scholar on the book of Matthew, which gives it far more backing than slimmer studies tend to have.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nuanced, yet simple., June 25, 2011

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This review is from: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10 (Paperback)

Carson has a way of bringing common sense exegesis to what seems to be a familiar text. Through his lucid teaching, the S on the M becomes more nuanced. What makes this a more thorough study than some, is that Carson deals with the S on the M (Matt.5-7) and the aftermath of this teaching on its first listeners (8-10). I just finished this, and I am sending it as a gift. If you want to have a better grasp of the practicalities of Jesus' S on the M, get this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars How to handle confrontation, February 13, 2011

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It is an excellent book that use Jesus' sermon the mount to help us deal with how to handle confrontation in a proper manner.