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- Title
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT AND MORAL THEOLOGY: A DEONTOLOGICAL VIRTUE ETHIC OF RESPONSE APPROACH.
- Authors
RIDLEHOOVER, CHARLES NATHAN
- Abstract
In The Sermon the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective, William Mattison has recently called for a renaissance in two areas of Sermon studies. First, the Sermon should be returned to a central place in ethical discussions of the New Testament. Second, a virtue theory best explains the nature of the Sermon's teachings. Along with Mattison's proposal, Jonathan Pennington's The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary has argued similarly for a virtue reading of the Sermon. While agreeing with their arguments in principle, I will suggest that the Sermon's complex matrix of ethical principles is best understood as a deontological virtue ethic of response. The Sermon teaches its kingdom righteousness by instructing the would-be follower to emulate Christ by obedience to the divine will (deontology), character development (virtue theory), and response to the Father while bearing the concerns of others (ethics of response). I will focus on four key passages that are representative of the Sermon's ethical teachings: Matthew 5:3-12; 6:7-15; 7:12; and 7:24-27. These texts are at structurally significant points and function in a summative fashion for the Sermon's ethic.
- Subjects
SERMON on the mount; CHRISTIAN ethics; DEONTOLOGICAL ethics; MATTISON, William; BIBLE. Matthew
- Publication
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2020, Vol 63, Issue 2, p267
- ISSN
0360-8808
- Publication type
Article