
To All the Nations
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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 literature
- Law 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 intertextuality
- The 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 Beatitudes
- Conclusion
- 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 retaliation
- Solidarity 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
- Dalits and a theology of the cross
- The embarrassment of the cross
- The centrality of the cross in Dalit Christian tradition
- The cross in the Dalit lyrical tradition
- Focus on the passion of Christ: Embracing the crucified and abandoning the cross
- The cross as the site of God's poured out love: Devotion to the cross
- The cross in Dalit revolutionary literature
- The Dalit understanding of the cross and reading the passion in Matthew for a theology of the cross
- The Flight to Egypt: A Migrant Reading-Implications for a Lutheran Understanding of Salvation
- Migration and asylum as context
- Migration as the "locus" of theology
- Migrant readings
- Matthew 2:13-23: The flight to Egypt-A migrant reading
- Migration, Luther and salvation
- Matthew, Judaism and Lutheran Tradition
- Matthew's Pharisees: Seven Woes and Seven Warnings
- "Woe unto You"
- Who were the Pharisees?
- Two warnings
- Repairing the relationship
- Hermeneutical reflections and two more warnings
- Meant, means and ideological reading: One more warning
- Preaching Reconciliation: From "Law and Gospel" to "Justice and Mercy" in Matthew
- Beyond deicide
- Christian, feminist, post-Holocaust
- Matthew as a "Jewish Gospel"
- Christian stereotyping of Judaism as "law"
- Matthew as an opening for reconciliation
- Preaching "justice and mercy"
- Questions for further reflection
- List of Contributors
- Weitere Veröffentlichungen
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