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Article: Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church
- Article from:
- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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DAVID P. SCAER, Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church (St. Louis: Concordia, 2004). Pp. 415. $26.99.
Discourses in Matthew grows out of a conversation between David Scaer and the late C. S. Mann at a symposium on the Gospels sponsored by the late William R. Farmer in 1985. That "chance meeting" (p. 7) gave rise to a wider NT project designed "to demonstrate that all the New Testament documents had a catechetical purpose" and that "theology, dogmatics, or catechetics were not later church innovations but described what the writers of the New Testament intended the documents to be" (p. 7).
In the present study, S. seeks "to show that Matthew's Gospel was written as a catechesis that ...