The Challenge of Discipleship A Critical Study of the Sermon on the Mount as Scripture

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Copyright: 9/1/1999

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Through a series of exercises readers formulate their own conclusion about Jesus' teachings and recognize the choices implied in their interpretations.

Preface

Introduction A Critical Study of the New Testament as Scripture

(1)

The Challenge of Discipleship and Our Readings of the Sermon on the Mount

(4)

Reading the Sermon on the Mount as Scripture: The Text-Life Dimension of Reading

(3)

The Role of Critical Biblical Studies for Believers

(3)

Reading the Sermon on the Mount with Others

(5)

Assuming Responsiblity for Our Interpretations

(2)

Assessing the Relative Value of Diverse Interpretations of the Teaching of the Sermon on the Mount for Christian Believers

(5)

Part 1 THE BEATITUDES AS SCRIPTURE: The Teaching about Discipleship of Matthew 5:1--16 and 7:13--29

``Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit'': The Beatitudes and Discipleship Today, Matthew 5:1--16 and 7:13--29

(18)

Your Reading of the Beatitudes as Scripture

(7)

What Do Christians Learn from the Beatitudes for Their Life as Disciples Today?

(7)

Comparing Your Conclusions with Five Other Interpretations

(11)

Reading A1: The Beatitudes Provide Rules for One's Life as a Christian

(1)

Reading A2: The Beatitudes Provide Rules for the Community of Christian Believers

(1)

Reading B: The Beatitudes Are a Call to Discipleship

(1)

Reading C: The Beatitudes Provide a Vision of the Kingdom and of God's Loving Care

(1)

Reading D: The Beatitudes Provide Eyes to See Manifestations of the Kingdom and God's Will among Us

(1)

Reading E: The Beatitudes Empower Reader-Hearers to Be Disciples and the People of God

(2)

Your Reading: Identifying Problem, Solution, and Transformation Presupposed by Your Interpretation

(2)

Assessing the Plausibility of Our Perception of the Believers and Their Needs

(2)

Assuming Responsibility for Our Faith-Interpretations

(21)

Acknowledging the Existence of a Plurality of Interpretations

(1)

Overcoming Believers' Reluctance to Assume Responsiblity for Their Faith-Interpretations

(4)

The Legitimacy of Bringing Our Lives to the Text: The Contextual Frame of Our Interpretations

(3)

The Legitimacy of Bringing Our Theological Views to the Text: The Hermeneutical Frames of Our Interpretations

(8)

Grounding Our Interpretations on a Specific Dimension of the Text: The Analytical Frame

(2)

Questions for Our Critical Study

(2)

Discipleship as Doing Gog's Will and Our Faith-Interpretations of the Beatitudes

(22)

Comparing Your Reading with Reading A: Discipleship as Doing God's Will Requires Knowing God's Will - Matthew 5:3--12 as Window

(7)

What Kind of Teaching Do the Beatitudes Offer to Believers Today According to Reading A?

(1)

How Do Believer-Readers Make Sense of the Beatitudes According to Reading A?

(2)

What Is the Textual Evidence on Which the Conclusions of Reading A Are Grounded?

(2)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

(3)

Comparing Your Reading with Reading B: Discipleship as Doing God's Will Requires Wanting to Do God's Will - Matthew 5:3--12 as Story

(12)

What Kind of Teaching Do the Beatitudes Offer to Believers Today According to Reading B?

(1)

How Do Believer-Readers Make Sense of the Beatitudes According to Reading B?

(4)

What Is the Textual Evidence on Which Reading B Is Grounded?

(3)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

(4)

Discipleship as Imitating Christ and Struggling for the Kingdom and Our Faith-Interpretations of the Beatitudes

(35)

Comparing Your Reading with Reading C: Discipleship as Imitating Christ Requires Being Resocialized - Matthew 5:3--12 as Symbolic Message

(11)

What Kind of Teaching Do the Beatitudes Offer to Believers Today According to Reading C?

(2)

How Do Believer-Readers Make Sense of the Beatitudes According to Reading C?

(3)

What Is the Textual Evidence on Which Reading C Is Grounded?

(3)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

(3)

Comparing Your Reading with Reading D: Discipleship as Imitating Christ Requires Having the Eyes of Faith - Matthew 5:3--12 as Transformative Words

(11)

What Kind of Teaching Do the Beatitudes Offer to Believers Today According to Reading D?

(1)

How Do Believer-Readers Make Sense of the Beatitudes According to Reading D?

(4)

What Is the Textual Evidence on Which Reading D Is Grounded?

103

(5)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

108

(1)

Comparing Your Reading with Reading E: Discipleship as Struggling for the Kingdom and God's Justice- Matthew 5:3--12 as Subversive Message

109

(12)

What Kind of Teaching Do the Beatitudes Offer to Believers Today According to Reading E?

109

(1)

How Do Believer-Readers Make Sense of the Beatitudes According to Reading E?

110

(3)

What Is the Textual Evidence on Which Reading E Is Grounded?

113

(2)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

115

(6)

Part 2 ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR VIEWS OF SCRIPTURE AND THEIR ROLES IN OUR INTERPRETATIONS OF MATTHEW 5:17--48 AND 7:12

Discipleship as Fulfilling Scripture: Matthew 5:17--48 and 7:12

121

(15)

What Is the Teaching of Matthew 5:17--48 and 7:12 about the Role of Scripture for Believers Today?

121

(2)

Your Reading of Matthew 5:17--48 and 7:12 as Scripture: What Is Its Teaching about the Role of Scripture for Believers Today?

123

(3)

Comparing Your Conclusions with Those of Five Other Interpretations

126

(10)

Reading A1: Matthew 5:17--48 Offers Believers a Lamp to My Feet, the New Scripture-Law That They Should Implement in Their Individual Lives; Reading A2: Matthew 5:17-48 Offers Believers a Canon, a Rule for Community Life

126

(2)

Reading B: Matthew 5:17--48 Teaches Believers That Scripture Is Good News, the Expression of the Will of a Loving Parent That They Should Make Their Own

128

(1)

Reading C: Matthew 5:17--48 Teaches Believers That Scripture Is a Family Album That Establishes Their Identity

129

(1)

Reading D: Matthew 5:17--48 Teaches Believers That Scripture Is a Pair of Corrective Glasses Through Which They Can Discern the Expressions of God's Will That They Should Practice in an Overabundant Way

130

(2)

Reading E: Matthew 5:17--48 Teaches Believers That Scripture Is an Empowering Word That Enables Them to Discern That for Them God Reigns and to Struggle for God's Justice

132

(1)

Your Reading: The Teaching of Matthew 5:17--48 about Scripture for Believers Today

133

(3)

Teachings about Divorce and Not Resisting Evil (Part 1): Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as Lamp to My Feet, Canon, Good News, and Family Album

136

(25)

What Is the Teaching of Matthew 5:31--32 and 38--42 about Divorce and about Not Resisting Evil for Believers Today?

136

(1)

Your Reading of Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as Scripture

137

(1)

Reading A: Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as a Prohibition of Divorce and an Admonition Not to Resist Evil

138

(6)

Scripture as Lamp to My Feet and Canon: Analytical Frame - Matthew 5:17-48; 7:12 as a Window upon Matthew's Community

138

(1)

Scripture as Lamp to My Feet and Canon: A Plausible Hermeneutical Frame for Believers Today

139

(1)

Matthew 5:31-32 as Lamp to My Feet and Canon: A Prohibition of Divorce, Except in Case of Adultery

139

(2)

Matthew 5:38-42 as Lamp to My Feet and Canon: An Admonition Not to Resist Evil

141

(3)

Reading B: Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as a Denunciation of Divorce and Adultery and as a Call Not to Resist Evil

144

(7)

Scripture as Good News: Analytical Frame - Matthew 5:17--48 as the Presentation of a Part of the Story of the Disciples

144

(1)

Scripture as Good News: A Plausible Hermeneutical Frame for Believers Today

145

(1)

Matthew 5:31--32 as Good News: A Denunciation of Divorce and Adultery as Destroying Good Marriage Relationships

146

(2)

Matthew 5:38--42 as Good News: An Affirmation That Not Resisting Evildoers Is Good for Believers

148

(3)

Reading C: Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as a Vision of Relationships in God's Family Now and in the Coming Kingdom

151

(9)

Scripture as Family Album: Analytical Frame - Matthew 5:17--48 as a Symbolic Message

151

(4)

Scripture as Family Album: A Plausible Hermeneutical Frame for Believers Today

155

(1)

Matthew 5:31--32 as a Part of Our Family Album: Marriage, Divorce, and Adultery, Now and in the Kingdom

155

(2)

Matthew 5:38--42 as a Part of Our Family Album: Violence and Nonviolence, Now and in the Kingdom

157

(3)

A Step in the Process of Assuming Responsibility for Our Interpretations

160

(1)

Teachings about Divorce and Not Resisting Evil (Part 2): Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as Corrective Glasses and Empowering Word

161

(29)

Reading D: Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as a Lessons in Discernment - How to Identify Present Expressions of God's Will to Be Practiced in an Overabundant Righteousness

162

(15)

Scripture as Corrective Glasses: Analytical Frame --- the Transformative Thrust of Matthew 5:17--48 and 7:12

162

(3)

Scripture as Corrective Glasses: A Plausible Hermeneutical Frame for the Disciples' Present Life

165

(4)

Matthew 5:31--32 as Corrective Glasses: Good Intimate Relationships Such As Marriage Are Expressions of God's Will to be Lifted Up

169

(4)

Matthew 5:38--42 as Corrective Glasses: Blessed Are the Meek Who Value Relationship with Others above Everything Else

173

(4)

Reading E: Matthew 5:31--32, 38--42 as Empowering Word-Bringing about the Reality of the Kingdom for the Powerless

177

(13)

Scripture as Empowering Word: Analytical Frame --- the Subversive Thrust of Matthew 5:17--48 and Its Voices from the Margin

177

(4)

Scripture as Empowering Word: A Plausible Hermeneutical Frame for the Persecuted Poor, for African-Americans, for Two-Thirds World Women, and for Those Who Accept the Call to Solidarity with the Poor and the Oppressed

181

(3)

Matthew 5:31--32 as Empowering Word for Believers Today: Conjuring a New Relationship between Women and Men

184

(2)

Matthew 5:38--42 as Empowering Word for Believers Today: Gaining Control over One's Live by Not Resisting Evil in Solidarity with Others

186

(4)

Choosing an Interpretation: The Challenge of Discipleship, Matthew 6:1--7:11

190

(21)

Why Did I Choose This Interpretation Rather Than One of the Others?

190

(2)

Accounting for Our Emotional Responses to Different Interpretations for Scripture in Our Critical Study

192

(1)

Different Roles in This Discussion for Readers Who Are Christian Believers and for Readers Who Are Not

193

(2)

The Threefold Ground for Choosing an Interpretation: Issues Open for Discussion

195

(4)

Reading Matthew 6:1--7:11 to Elucidate Basic Convictions about God as Father and about Authority Presupposed by Our Choice of an Interpretation

199

(10)

Why Did I Choose to Invite You to This Critical Study of the Sermon on the Mount as Scripture?

209

(2)

Appendix Why a Critical Study of the New Testament as Scripture?

211

(24)

Didactic Reasons for Developing a Practice of Critical Studies of the Bible as Scripture

211

(8)

Ethical Reasons for Reexamining the Relationship of Critical Studies and Faith-Interpretations

219

(5)

Hermeneutical Reasons for a Critical Study of the New Testament as Scripture: Schneiders's Proposal

224

(4)

Pragmatic Reasons for a Critical Study of the New Testament as Scripture

228

(4)

The Practice of Scriptural Criticism

232

(3)

Notes

235

(24)

Bibliography

259

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The Challenge of Discipleship A Critical Study of the Sermon on the Mount as Scripture

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