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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 July 2017
      03 July 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316761342
      9781107171480
      9781316622360
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316761342
      Dimensions:
      (246 x 189 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 290 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 293 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Biblical Studies - New Testament, Religious Ethics, Religion
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    In this volume, William C. Mattison, III demonstrates that virtue ethics provides a helpful key for unlocking the moral wisdom of the Sermon on the Mount. Showing how familiar texts such as the Beatitudes and Petitions of the Lord's Prayer are more richly understood, and can even be aligned with the theological and cardinal virtues, he also locates in the Sermon classic topics in morality, such as the nature of happiness, intentionality, the intelligibility of human action, and the development of virtue. Yet far from merely placing the teaching of Aristotle in the mouth of Jesus, he demonstrates how the Sermon presents an account of happiness and virtue transformed in the light of Christian faith. The happiness portrayed is that of the Kingdom of heaven, and the habits needed to participate in it in the next life, but even initially in this one, are possible only by God's grace through Jesus Christ, and lived in the community that is the Church.

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