1550. Reading Jesus Differently: Wisdom, Wholeness, and Human Flourishing w/ Dr. Jonathan Pennington
What if the Sermon on the Mount isn’t primarily showing us an impossible standard—but teaching us how to flourish?
Dr. Jonathan T. Pennington joins Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb to explore Jesus as a philosopher in the ancient sense: a teacher offering a comprehensive vision of the good life. They discuss what the Beatitudes really mean, why “blessed” may not be the best translation of makarios, and how holiness, wholeness, virtue, psychology, and embodied human life belong together.
They also discuss how the Gospels were written, whether Matthew was originally composed in Greek, the interpretive…
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