Gerhard Lohfink’s Interpretative Key to the Sermon on the Mount

The purpose of this article is to elicit and analyze the main interpretative key used by German exegete Gerhard Lohfink in his reading Sermon on Mount. It does not attempt, however, tracing detail scholar's interpretation individual passages within that biblical text. In Lohfink’s understanding, Mount addressed directly all people but only those who become disciples Jesus, allow themselves be gathered as new Israel. By living according message Mount, communities a light world, creating “contrast society” thereby demonstrating world human relationships can shaped ways. through mediation Christian at large discover which, end, set abstract moral norms, rather an indication way life appropriate for social sphere which God reigns.