Feb 21, 2022
7 min read
On Non-Violent Subversion
A Look at Jesus’ Words in Matthew 5:38–42
The “Sermon on the Mount” is a comprehensive sketch of Jesus’ moral and ethical vision, forming a manifesto by which the Jesus community should live. Matthew open’s up this section with Jesus “going up on a mountainside,” presenting Jesus as a New Moses figure, bringing the Torah to its fulfillment. Many have tried to paint Jesus’ teachings here as…
