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Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen Stassen and David Gushee’s Kingdom Ethics has offered students, pastors, and other readers an outstanding framework for Christian ethical thought, one that is solidly rooted in Scripture, especially Jesus’s teachings in the Sermon on the Mount. This substantially revised edition of Kingdom Ethics features enhanced and updated treatments of all...

Many have interpreted the Beatitudes idealistically, saying they are high ideals that Jesus is urging us to live up to: if only we would mourn, be pure in heart, be peacemakers, and so on, then we would be rewarded. Moral ideals in this sense are moral aspirations to strive for, out beyond human reach. This then creates an ethics of moral idealism: “if only people would act according to these ideals, then good things would happen, but they won’t.” We
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