Publisher's Synopsis
This title offers fresh readings of themes and individual sayings in the 'Sermon on the Mount' (SM) using socio-cognitive approaches. Because these approaches are invested in patterns of human cognition and social mechanisms, the resulting collection highlights the persistent appeal and persuasiveness of the SM: from innate moral drives, to the biology of emotion and risk-taking, to the formation and obliteration of in-group/out-group distinctions. Through these theories the authors show why - even across cultures and history - the SM continues to grip both individual minds and groups of people in order to shape moral communities.
