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Jesus the superior exegete

February 27, 2009

Stanley Hauerwas on the Gospel for Invocabit, the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4: “Jesus is to be subjected to Israel’s testing in the wilderness, a testing in which Israel proved her inability to live faithfully despite God’s good gifts. The Son, however, will be obedient, but we cannot overlook the cost of his obedience. [...]

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The Festival of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

September 21, 2008

Text: Matthew 9.9-13   A pastor was out walking one day, and he saw a man named Mohammed sitting at an Al Qaeda recruiting ofice, and he said to Mohammed, “Follow me.” So he arose and followed the pastor. Now it happened, as the pastor was having dinner at Mohammed’s house, that behold, many other [...]

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Scaer on "Two Matthews"

September 20, 2008

Tomorrow is St. Matthew’s day, and one has to rejoice in the delicious sarcasm of my former professor, Dr. David P. Scaer: Out of deference to critical scholarship, but without accepting all its conclusions, we are compelled to identify two “Matthews”: one, the disciple of Jesus, the apostle; and the other, the evangelist, who they [...]

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