The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew

Matthew''s Gospel is the most significant Jewish-Christian document of the New Testament. Ulrich Luz both outlines and elucidates the story told in the Gospel emphasizing its focal points: the Sermon on the Mount the miracles the renunciation of possessions and particularly the theology of judgment by works an idea that represents both a challenge in its quest for a church set apart from non-Christians by deeds alone and a burden through its traumatic origin in the breach between Matthew''s community and the Israelite majority.