Matthew

<p>This Commentary brings the stimulating insights of a world-renowned theologian to the first Gospel.</p><p><strong>From the Back Cover:</strong></p><ul> <li>A refreshing feature of this kind of commentary is that comment is disciplined and shaped in relation to what is significant for Christian faith.</li> <li>In a relatively small book, there is substantial discussion of a whole host of issues that are of profound importance to Christians.</li> <li>The commentary is the work of one capable of acute observation and profound thought.</li> <li>At his best Hauerwas shows some real sensitivity to Matthew's story-telling technique.</li> <li>There is certainly much to challenge and inspire Christian readers.</li> <li>Hauerwas continually draws Matthean motifs together with similar features in the rest of the Bible and shows where subsequent generations found the basis for their doctrinal reasoning.</li> <li>This commentary serves readers admirably by connecting the points that lie between the first and twenty-first centuries and by reminding readers that Matthew's Gospel has played a deep, broad role in centuries of theological reflection.</li> <li>In this work, all of Hauerwas's strengths--his Christocentrism, his theological passion, his rigorous and demanding love for the gathered Church--are amplified through the words of the Evangelist to serve as a resource for preaching and teaching in the Church.</li> <li>This Brazos series can play an important role in reminding one of the community's indispensable role in understanding the Bible, and Hauerwas's contribution to the series is a formidable one indeed!</li></ul><p><strong>About the Author:</strong></p><p>Stanley Hauerwas (PhD, Yale University) is Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. His previous books include Cross-Shattered Christ, Performing the Faith, The Peaceable Kingdom, With the Grain of the Universe, A Better Hope, and Christian Existence Today.</p>