The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount is the address by which Jesus makes us children of God, and tells us what that means for our words, bodies, and relationships... or does it? Can anyone actually live this way? Maybe it's just for the experts and the aspirational. Or maybe it's a clever rhetorical ploy to make us see our sin but doesn't actually place any claims on us. Any maybe it doesn't matter one way or another because the words are so familiar we can hardly even hear them anymore. Tune in for a refresher course on the most famous and influential sermon in all of human history.

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Notes:

1. The Sermon on the Mount appears in Matthew 5–7; see also the Sermon on the Boat in Mark 4:1–34 and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6:17–49.

2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship

3. Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

4. Some Anabaptist interpretations in Christianity and Revolution: Radical Christian Testimonies, 1520–1650

5. Martin Luther, Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount

6. I'll be giving a talk on the Sermon on the Mount at the June 2020 conference of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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