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3. Perception of Risk in the Sermon on the Mount


 
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1. Title Title of document 3. Perception of Risk in the Sermon on the Mount - Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Rikard Roitto; Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden; Sweden
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies; Ancient History
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Biblical studies; Sermon on the Mount; cognitive religion;
 
5. Subject Subject classification Biblical Studies
 
6. Description Abstract By means of insights from risk research, Rikard Roitto considers how the Sermon convinces its readers to accept its risky ethics. The human estimate of risk is based largely on emotions associated with reward, dread, moral appreciation, trust and other factors, and the Sermon’s rhetoric skillfully guides the listeners’ emotional appreciation of the dangers and rewards involved in abiding by its ethics. The dangers involved in an ethics that makes one vulnerable is countered by dread-invoking images of the final judgment and promises that God will make sure that the righteous will not lack basic material resources. The ethics is also portrayed as both prototypical for those who belong to the Kingdom of Heaven (the Matthean community) and morally superior to ordinary ethics, which would have led its readers to a positive emotional evaluation of its injunctions. This, in turn, would have repressed negative emotions of danger, since humans tend to strive for uniform emotional responses. In a final section, Roitto discusses the potential social effects of the risky ethics of the Sermon and suggests that it had the potential to encourage the Matthean community to remain in socially risky interaction with other Jewish groups.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 06-Oct-2021
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/32048
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.32048
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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