Behold the Christ: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Behold the Christ: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew, by Leroy A. Huizenga, reveals the significance of St. Matthew’s Jesus: He is Emmanuel, God with us always, who saves his people from their sins by dying for them.
In showing how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament, gave us a way to live, and taught us how to follow the narrow way to the kingdom of heaven, St. Matthew modeled the fourfold way of reading Scripture according to letter and spirit.
Above all, St. Matthew’s Gospel presents Jesus Christ founding the Catholic Church as a robust, rigorous religion with rich rituals, chiefly the sacrificial Eucharist as sustenance on the narrow way to heaven. Jesus demands much of his Church, but the same Jesus who commands his Church also promises and delivers much—above all, himself.
Keyed to the lectionary and featuring a section on the relevance of St. Matthew’s Gospel for our contemporary age, Behold the Christ will make the Gospel and indeed the Faith real to today’s readers.
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- Provides comprehensive theology of the First Gospel
- Used as a handbook for preaching and teaching through the Church year
- Explains what the Gospel of Matthew is all about, and attempts at recovery St. Matthew's story as he composed it
The Challenge If St. Matthew’s Gospel to the Spirit of the Age
- Preaching Matthew’s Gospel in a Postmodern Age
- The Catholic Story
The Genesis of Jesus the Christ
- The Origins of Jesus the Christ
- Worship and Rejection of the Christ Child
- The Advent of the Kingdom
The Ministry of Jesus Christ
- The Launch of Hesu’s Public Ministry
- The Semon on the Mount
- The Mission of Healing
- The Missionary Discourse
- The Widening Chasm between Jesus and His Fellos Jews
- The Parables of the Kingdom
- Rising Opposition to Jesus the Christ
The Passion of Jesus the Christ
- The Passion and the Glory
- The Church Discipline Discourse
- Jesus the Christ Comes to Jerusalem
- Jesus the Christ Pronounces Judgement: Woes, Temple, Apocalypse
- The Passion of Jesus the Christ
This is the rare commentary that is as pastorally useful as it is exegetically thorough. It is complete but never cumbersome, clear but never facile. The author sees the mystagogical dimension missed by most modern scholars, though beloved by the Church Fathers. It is the ideal handbook for homilists. Both preachers and scholars alike will love this book and want to keep it handy. For that matter, it will be treasured by all Bible students and teachers!
—Scott Hahn, Bestselling author of The First Society
If you have trouble connecting with the readings at Mass, you need this book. Dr. Leroy Huizenga cracks open the Gospel of Matthew so that you’ll see it anew, as if you’re encountering it for the first time.
—Jennifer Fulwiler, host of “The Jennifer Fulwiler Show” on Sirius XM
This remarkable book is both a comprehensive theology of the First Gospel, as well as a handbook for preaching and teaching it through the Church year. Let homilists rejoice! Everyone responsible for proclaiming the Gospel will want this volume!
—John Bergsma, Co-Author of A Catholic Introduction to the Old Testament