The Vision of Matthew

In this volume Father Meier explores how Matthew remodeled the form, the Christological message, and the moral demand of the gospel.Part I shows Matthew's church in crisis. It was experiencing a shift in its Christian existence: from a narrow Jewish-Christian past to a universal Gentile future. To preserve yet reinterpret the particularistic traditions of that Jewish-Christian past, Matthew drew up a model of salvation history and then reshaped the gospel message to fit it.Part II offers a mini-