Preaching the Sermon on the Mount : The World

This collection of essays and sermons challenges us to consider the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus' serious proposal for an alternative society, a speech of resistance to the forces and institutions that dominate the world. This two-part volume brings together the thoughts of biblical scholars and storytellers, theologians and historians, and evangelical and mainline scholars. Eighteen writers tackle Jesus' landmark sermon, as timely in today's discussions of empire, occupation, poverty, and wars as ever. They demonstrate that the Sermon on the Mount puts before us not an impossible ideal, but a vision of what God's people can be when they choose by God's grace to live in God's Kingdom.

Introduction : preaching the Sermon on the mount	p. 1
Essays on the Sermon on the mount
Power and identities	p. 8
Embodying God's empire in communal practices	p. 22
The way of the church	p. 36
Dare we live in the world imagined in the Sermon on the mount?	p. 45
The folly of the Sermon on the mount	p. 59
Great in the empire of Heaven	p. 69
Sermons on the Sermon on the mount
The suprising blessing of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-9)	p. 86
Salt and light, salsa and tortillas (Matthew 5:13-16)	p. 92
Fulfilling the law (Matthew 5:17-20)	p. 98
The power of anger in an imperialist America (Matthew 5:21-26)	p. 103
Heads without eyes and arms without hands (Matthew 5:27-30)	p. 109
On the road with Jesus (Mathew 5:31-32)	p. 115
People or integrity (Matthew 5:33-37)	p. 121
Imagine (Matthew 5:38-42)	p. 126
Perfection (Matthew 5:48)	p. 132
May I have your attention please (Matthew 6:1-18)	p. 138
New rules for the game of life (Matthew 6:19-34)	p. 146
You be the judge? : (Matthew 7:1-6)	p. 151
God responds to all who seek him (Matthew 7:7-12)	p. 157
The rain came down (Matthew 7:24-27)	p. 162
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