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Matthew: A Commentary, Volume 2: The Churchbook, Matthew 13–28 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume two of Bruner’s commentary is called The Churchbook because Bruner sees Matthew 13–28 as concerned primarily with the life of the church and discipleship. Continuing his first volume (Christbook) exposition, Bruner shows here how the focus of Matthew shifts, from Jesus teaching about who he is to teaching mainly about what his church is. Bruner’s Churchbook commentary divides the second...

war against rank in the church. Jesus clearly does not like church structures that allow domineering, authoritarian, or, in other words, secular organizational relations. Structures of authority in the church are probably unavoidable. But every effort to confront these structures with Jesus’ anti-authoritarian teaching is effort well spent, if done with civility and courtesy (the sometimes neglected facets of a thoroughgoing Christian pacifism). The coming great church will probably have bishops,
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