THEO1088 Lecture 12: FEB15_THEO100206_WALTON
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The teaching of jesus and new testament ethics. Most people will accept that jesus was a great teacher - teaching is a focus of matthew"s gospel: 5 great speeches in matthew"s gospel (to parallel moses and torah) New testament ethics is not simply the process of looking for rules in the text and following them, but asking how ethical teaching relates to a new. Context. starts with understanding it in its context and then taking it to modern world. Discussion: simon wiesenthal - the sunflower https://www. facinghistory. org/ sunflower-synopsis. If you want to be forgiven, do you have to forgive others? (king and slave parable) 12:32, 20:28, 26:28 (parallels in the gospel of mark, suggests that matthew had a particular interest in forgiveness when studying mark) 2 main passages: sermon on the mount - 5:21-26, 6:12-15. There is a connection between forgiving other in order for god to forgive: matthew 18:21-35. Earthly jesus is essentially a pacifist who teaches non violence.
