To all the nations
Subtitle: Lutheran hermeneutics and the gospel of Matthew
By: edited by Kenneth Mtata and Craig Koester
Series: LWF studies -- 2015/2; LWF studies -- 2015/2.
Publisher: Lutheran World Federation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9783374042333
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Sermon on the mount
Notes: Essays originally presented at the 2014 consultation at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Martin Junge; title: Introduction to Matthew and Lutheran hermeneutics. Introduction / Craig Koester and Kenneth Mtata; title: Contemporary approaches to Matthew: a "Lutheran" critique / Eve-Marie Becker; title: Reading Matthew in light of a (recovered) hermeneutic of law and gospel / Mark Allan Powell; title: Matthew's gospel for the Reformation: "the Messiah ... sent and manifested" / Timothy Wengert; title: Text, context and tradition: implications for reading Matthew / Roger Marcel Wanke; title: Sermon on the Mount. How do we deal with a challenging text? / Bernd Oberdorfer; title: Matthew and the hermeneutics of love / Oda Wischmeyer; title: Perfection of Christian life in the face of anger and retaliation: Martin Luther's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount / Hans-Peter Grosshans; title: On loving your enemy. The secret link between faith and love: Luther on the Beatitudes (Mt 5:43-48) / Vítor Westhelle; title: Theology of the cross, liberation and discipleship. A theology of the cross and the passion in Matthew: an Indian Dalit perspective / Joseph Prabhakar Dayam; title: The flight to Egypt: a migrant reading: implications for a Lutheran understanding of salvation / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon; title: Matthew, Judaism and Lutheran tradition. Matthew's Pharisees: seven woes and seven warnings / Laurence Edwards; title: Preaching reconciliation: from "law and gospel" to "justice and mercy" in Matthew / Esther Menn.