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Description
Understanding the Sermon on the Mount (meaning both texts in their shared, collective meaning) as a temple text reveals that it has far more power and unity than a mere collection of miscellaneous sayings of Jesus. John W. Welch examines the teachings and commandments of the Sermon on the Mount in its Book of Mormon setting—at the Nephite temple, in connection with sacred ordinances of covenant making. This context opens new insights into the meaning and significance of the Sermon whereby readers never again see the Sermon the same.
Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple & Sermon on the Mount adapts and expands Welch’s earlier work to offer a thorough Latter-day Saint interpretation of the Savior’s greatest sermon, drawing on insights from Jesus’s Sermon at the Temple in 3 Nephi to shed light on his Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew. This edition includes substantial additions based on insights gleaned throughout a decade of continuing research.
Copyright Status
© 1999 by John W. Welch
ISBN
978-0934893374
Owning Institution
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Publisher
The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
Publication Date
1999
Disciplines
Religion | Religious Education
Recommended Citation
Welch, John W., "Illuminating the Sermon at the Temple and Sermon on the Mount" (1999). Maxwell Institute Publications. 42.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/42