Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Provide a description of the Sermon on the Mount in light of its context in the gospel of Matthew

• Explain how Jesus’ timeless teaching informs and answers modern ethical dilemmas

• Use the hermeneutical tools needed to properly interpret the text

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Matthew and the History of Interpretation

• Matthew: Highly Structured, Literary, and Intentional Work

• Discovering the Genre of Matthew 5–7

• Matthew: Narrative-Discourse Outline

• Matthew: The Sermon and Other Major Discourses

• History of Interpretation: Importance of the Sermon on the Mount

• History of Interpretation: Evading the Sermon’s Ethical Implications

• Interpretation: Monastic

• Interpretation: Anabaptist

• Finding Information on Anabaptists in Dictionaries

• Interpretation: Two Kingdoms

• Interpretation: Dispensational

• Interpretation: Lutheran

• Interpretation: Modern Liberal

• Interpretation: Fulfillment-Complexity

• Taxonomy of Interpretations: Conclusions

Unit 2: Sermon on the Mount: A Virtue-Ethics Reading

• Why Is This Important?

• Virtue Ethics in the Context of Ethical Theories

• Unpacking Virtue Ethics

• Virtue Ethics and the Sermon on the Mount: Comparisons

• Virtue Ethics and the Sermon on the Mount: Contrasts

• Virtue Ethics: Modeling Christian Discipleship

Unit 3: Sermon on the Mount: Exposition

• Understanding the Structure of the Sermon on the Mount

• Using the Pericope Tool to Examine the Literary Structure of Matthew

• Guidelines for Reading the Sermon on the Mount

• Adding Notes to Your Bibles

• Literary Context of the Sermon

• Introducing the Beatitudes (Matt 5:1–12)

• Using Interlinear Bibles and the Bible Sense Lexicon

• Beatitudes (Matt 5:1–6)

• Comparing English Translations with the Text Comparison Tool

• Beatitudes (Matt 5:7–12)

• Salt and Light (Matt 5:13–16)

• Fulfilling Old Testament Righteousness (Matt 5:17–20)

• Using Parallel Resources

• Unpacking Matthew 5:20, Part 1 (Matt 5:21–48)

• Using the Bible Word Study Tool to Study the Greek Word for “Love”

• Being Righteous by Being Teleios(Matt 5:48)

• Unpacking Matthew 5:20, Part 2 (Matt 6:1–21)

• The Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:7–15)

• Double-Mindedness and Anxiety (Matt 6:19–34)

• Judging Others (Matt 7:1–12)

• Inside-Outside Issues (Matt 7:13–23)

• Conclusion: Build on Solid Rock (Matt 7:24–27)

Summary and Conclusion

• A “Cardiographic” Reading

Details

• Title: NT251 The Sermon on the Mount

• Instructor: Jonathan T. Pennington

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 5