Radical Discipleship: Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount - Rilegato

Chia, Roland

 
9781498247795: Radical Discipleship: Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount
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ISBN 10: 1498247792 ISBN 13: 9781498247795
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock, 2006

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The Sermon on the Mount is perhaps the most famous passage in the Gospel of Matthew. Even unbelievers like Mahatma Gandhi appreciate the teaching of the Sermon and applaud the high morality it espouses. Others see in statements like ""love your enemies"" and ""turn the other cheek"" a powerful rhetoric against war and violence. Most Christians are familiar with the Sermon, and see it as delineating important ethical principles for Christian living. Familiarity with the Sermon, however, can ironically prevent Christians from understanding its true message and significance. Some, for instance, see the Sermon merely as a body of ""ethical teachings"" that has some practical relevance. Many find some of its imperatives too idealistic. In this book, Chia asks basic questions as he reflects on the Sermon on the Mount: What is the main focus of the Sermon? Does the Sermon present a code of conduct for Christians, or is the Sermon really about the dawn of a new eschatological community inaugurated by Jesus Christ? Chia maintains that the Sermon can be properly understood and its significance firmly grasped only when it is read in the light of Christ and God's eschatological kingdom. The Sermon presents the attitude, values, and conduct of the new community that Christ has gathered in his name. But this new reality that has dawned awaits fulfillment at the consummation of the kingdom of God. In the ambivalence of the ""already"" and ""not yet,"" the Sermon depicts Christian discipleship as an ""impossible possibility."" Yet, the Sermon clearly challenges Christ's disciples to be a community of character and to embody an ethic which is inimical to that of the world.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Roland Chia is the Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Lecturer in Historical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Theological College (Singapore). He is also the author of Revelation and Theology: The Knowledge of God according to Balthasar and Barth, and Hope for the World: A Christian Vision of the Last Things. And he is the consulting editor of Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture and contributing editor of the New Dictionary of Theology.

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Editore
Wipf and Stock
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1498247792
ISBN 13 
9781498247795
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
122
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ISBN 10:  1597525251 ISBN 13:  9781597525251
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock, 2006
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