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Article: Living the Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Hope for Grace and Deliverance.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- November 28, 2006
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Living the Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Hope for Grace and Deliverance.
By Glen H. Stassen. Jossey-Bass, 240pp., $21.95.
EARLY IN HIS introduction, Glen Stassen asks why a book on the Sermon on the Mount belongs in Jossey-Bass's series called Enduring Questions in Christian Life. The Sermon on the Mount is indeed an enduring question as well as a central biblical text.
I have sometimes suggested to students that I could toss out the entire Bible with the exception of the Beatitudes, and there have been many others who have found in the Sermon on the Mount not only sufficient spiritual guidance but also a message that differs markedly from ...