The Sermon on the Mount. A History of Interpretation and Bibliography (ATLA Bibliography Series 3)

The Sermon on the Mount continues to attract persons of different backgrounds and traditions. There is general agreement that the Sermon offers a compendium of the teachings of Jesus, and that it is one of the most lofty and powerful expressions of the essence of the moral life. But when one turns to questions about the Sermon's meaning and relevance, there is no unanimity of opinion. A cluster of problems has divided interpreters from the first centuries of the Christian era to the present. Kissinger's readable yet scholarly guide to the literature of the Sermon on the Mount reflects some of the many attempts which have been made to wrestle with those problems.Part I traces in 35 sections the history of interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from the patristic period to the twentieth century. An extensive partially-annotated bibliography on the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes is presented in Part II. The bibliography was developed from the collection of the late Harold Row. The author added materials from the Library of Congress and other outstanding collections to provide the first full-scale bibliography of the Sermon on the Mount which has indeed proved to be authoritative. Since the book was first published in its cloth edition in 1975, it has been widely consulted as a resource for Sermon on the Mount research and study. A general index of topics, a biblical references index, and an appendix listing "Sermon on the Mount" in 61 languages completes the work. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 5 EDITOR' S NOTE......Page 9 IN APPRECIATION: W. HAROLD ROW......Page 11 CONTENTS......Page 13 INTRODUCTION......Page 15 1 THE LITERATURE......Page 19 2 THE ANTE-NICENE PERIOD......Page 23 3 CHRYSOSTOM......Page 27 4 AUGUSTINE......Page 30 5 THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD......Page 34 6 MARTIN LUTHER......Page 38 7 HULDREICH ZWINGLI......Page 41 8 JOHN CALVIN......Page 44 9 THE ANABAPTISTS......Page 47 10 PROTESTANT SCHOLASTICISM TO PROTESTANT LIBERALISM......Page 52 11 PROTESTANT LIBERALISM......Page 58 12 FRIEDRICH AUGUST THOLUCK......Page 64 13 SØREN KIERKEGAARD......Page 66 14 LEO TOLSTOY......Page 70 15 CONSISTENT ESCHATOLOGY......Page 74 16 DISPENSATIONALISM......Page 79 17 CARL STANGE......Page 84 18 GERHARD KITTEL......Page 87 19 HOR.ACE MARRIOTT......Page 89 20 HANS WINDISCH......Page 90 21 AN IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBILITY......Page 95 22 C. H. DODD......Page 97 23 DIETRICH BONHOEFFER......Page 101 24 MARTIN DIBELIUS......Page 105 25 LEONHARD RAGAZ......Page 109 26 THE MANSONS......Page 112 27 AMOS N. WILDER......Page 116 28 ARCHIBALD M. HUNTER......Page 119 29 JOHN WICK BOWMAN......Page 122 30 CARL F. H. HENRY......Page 124 31 JOACHIM JEREMIAS......Page 126 32 HARVEY K. McARTHUR......Page 128 33 W. D. DAVlES......Page 131 34 JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS......Page 134 35 AFTERWORD......Page 140 FOREWORD......Page 145 SERMON ON THE MOUNT TEXTS......Page 146 SERMON ON THE MOUNT CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, SERMONS, MEDITATIONS, ETC.......Page 161 BEA TITUDES CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, SERMONS, MEDITATIONS, ETC.......Page 260 APPENDIX: "Sermon on the Mount" in Various Languages......Page 295 BIBLICAL REFERENCES INDEX......Page 297 GENERAL INDEX......Page 300 By Warren S. Kissinger. -- Includes Indexes. Part Ii Was Developed And Greatly Expanded From The Bibliography And Books Of The Late W. Harold Row. Bibliography: P. 127-275.