NT040-812 - Interpreting and Preaching the Sermon on the Mount

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT703-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of the Sermon on the Mount

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship in its bearing on the interpretation and application of the Sermon on the Mount

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of the Sermon on the Mount

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Sermon on the Mount

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying the Sermon on the Mount’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Authorship, provenance and date of the Gospel of Matthew with special attention to the Sermon on the Mount
  2. Recent developments in the interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount
  3. Current views of structure and argument
  4. Exegesis of selected sections of Sermon on the Mount
  5. Preaching the Sermon on the Mount today
  6. Sample sermons on the Sermon on the Mount with evaluation and discussion

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Pre-reading:

Carson, Donald A. Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and His Confrontation with the World: An Exposition of Matthew 5-10 (Grand Rapids: Global Christian, 2000). Or the Chinese translation listed below.

Talbert, Charles H. Reading the Sermon on the Mount: Character Formation and Ethical Decision Making in Matthew 5-7 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).

卡森：《主耶穌與神的國度 : 馬太福音第五至七章》何劉玲譯（South Pasadena：美國麥種傳道會，2003）

斯托得：《基督教文化的挑戰──登山寶訓精研》潘蘇齊冰等人譯（香港：宣道出版社，2012）.

曾思瀚：《天國就在我們中間 : 馬太福音登山寶訓解經研究》（香港 : 基道出版社，2007）.

 

Prescribed:

Boice, James Montgomery. The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006).

Buttrick, David. Speaking Jesus: Homiletic Theology and the Sermon on the Mount. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002).

Talbert, Charles H. Reading the Sermon on the Mount : Character Formation and Decision Making in Matthew 5-7 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2004).

柯志明：《愛的倫理：十誡、登山寶訓與基督信仰的倫理精神》（臺北：臺灣基督徒學會2011）.　

孫寶玲：《義道 - 馬太福音品讀》（香港：德慧文化：2016）.

黃根春：《二十世紀馬太福音研究文集》（香港：基督教文藝，1998）.

 

Recommended: 

Aune, David E. ed., The Gospel of Matthew in Current Study: Studies in Memory of William G. Thompson (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001).

Becker, Hans-Jürgen and Serge Ruzer eds. Sermon on the Mount and its Jewish Setting. (Cahiers de la Revue biblique 60; Paris: Gabalda, 2005).

Fleer, David and Dave Bland eds. Preaching the Sermon on the Mount: the world it imagines (Saint Louis: Chalice Press, 2007).

Friedlander, Gerald. The Jewish Sources of the Sermon on the Mount (London: George Routledge and Sons, 2008)

Lioy, Daniel. The Decalogue in the Sermon on the Mount (New York: Peter Lang, 2004).

Pelikan, Jaroslav.  Divine Rhetoric : the Sermon on the Mount as Message and as Model in Augustine, Chrysostom and Luther (Crestwood, N.Y.: St Vladimir's Press, 2000).

Welch, John W. The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple (Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, 2009).

 

Commentaries:

Allison, Dale C. The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (New York: Crossroad, 1999).

McKnight, Scot. Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zonderkidz, 2013)

卡森：《馬太福音》潘秋松譯（South Pasadena：美國麥種傳道會，2013）

馬有藻：《天國近了—馬太福音註釋》（San Jose：華人培訓中心，2003）

 

Classic:

Chrysostom, John. Homilies on Matthew (Translated by Kevin Knight; 2007).