The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing Quotes

“Este primer ejemplo/exégesis es el más extenso y en muchos sentidos es el más complicado. Establece el ejemplo de la lectura de «la Ley y los profetas» que se está enseñando mediante seis ilustraciones.”
― Jonathan T. Pennington, El Sermón del Monte y el florecimiento humano: Comentario teológico

“This prominence of the kingdom also orients the reader to understand that the macarisms and other wisdom being offered by the Sage Jesus in the Sermon are more than generalized, universal, human wisdom. Rather, these references to the kingdom of heaven set Jesus’s teaching into the context of the Jewish story of God’s reign and particularly the Jewish expectation of its eschatological consummation,53 its coming from heaven to earth.”
― Jonathan T. Pennington, The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary

“Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament documents are birthed directly out of Judaism, and so whatever else we understand about their meaning must be grounded in this reality. Any reading that ignores this is a decontextualized reading that may bear some fruit but cannot be described as sensitive to the intention of the text.”
― Jonathan T. Pennington, The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary