The Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's Go... - 9780567702081

The Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's GospelAuthor(s): Charles Nathan Ridlehoover\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780567702081, 978-0567702081\nSynopsis\nCharles Nathan Ridlehoover examines the Lords Prayer in Matthews Gospel, focusing on the prayers centrality and showing how this centrality affects our reading of the Sermon on the Mount and subsequently, the prayer itself. Ridlehoover argues that the Lords Prayer is structurally, lexically, and thematically central to the Sermon on the Mount, and the means through which disciples of Jesus are empowered to live out the kingdom righteousness it defines. In turn, the Sermon on the Mount clarifies what the answer to the petitions of the Lords Prayer might look like in the life of the disciple of Jesus.\n\nWhilst the centrality of the Lords Prayer has been noted by previous commentators, this centrality and its intended purpose has not.