This book invites readers to assume responsibility for their own interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount through a practice of 'critical study of the Bible as scripture.' Such a practice takes as a starting point the conclusions about 'the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount for believers today,' which Christian believers of all walks of life formulate for themselves, which non-Christian ordinary readers readily envision as they observe Christians, and which scholars imply in their sophisticated interpretations.
