The Sermon on the Mount and human flourishing

In this volume, Jonathan T. Pennington provides a comprehensive commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, situating it within the contexts of Jewish wisdom literature and Greco-Roman virtue ethics.

He argues that the Sermon envisions the realization of true human flourishing through doing the will of God as whole persons, balancing the unique work of Jesus with the necessity for his disciples to live in accord with the ethics of the kingdom.

The book addresses contemporary issues such as ethics, philosophy, and economics, and offers a macroscopic reading strategy for understanding the Sermon's message in the twenty-first century.