About the Book

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus puts aside his usual parables and speaks plainly in language anyone can understand.

Like Francis of Assisi and others, Arnold chose to live out Jesus’ teachings by embracing their self- sacrificing demands. In this collection of talks and essays, he calls us to live for the Sermon’s ultimate goal: the overturning of the prevailing order of injustice. In its place, Arnold writes, we must build up a just, peaceable society motivated by love.

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Tablet of Contents

Introduction by Scot McKnight

  • Not a New Law
  • Becoming Truly Human 
  • Salt and Light
  • Happiness
  • The Nature of the New Justice
  • Human Goodness and God’s Spirit 
  • Away from Compromise and Shadow
  • Against Bloodshed and Violence
  • The Better Righteousness
       
  • God or Mammon
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  • The Fight Against Mammon
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  • Mammon and the Living God
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  • The Decision
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  • Resistance by Surrender
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  • The Spirit That Overcomes
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  • The Present Experience of the Future Kingdom
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  • The Joyful News of the Kingdom
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  • God and the Future of Humanity 
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  • The Jesus of the Four Gospels

Afterword by Jürgen Moltmann

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Spiritual Classics