Hero of Heroes: Seeing Christ in the Beatitudes

by Iain M. Duguid

Publisher:

P&R

, 2001

Overview

Hero. Someone we admire, someone we want to be like. But does your idea of a hero include someone poor in spirit? Meek? Merciful? In this fresh look at the Beatitudes, Iain M. Duguid shows how Jesus turns our concept of a hero upside down. The Beatitudes hold out to us a higher form of heroism—the character and attitudes found in the Hero of Heroes.

Contents

Top Highlights

“To be poor in spirit means to know that we don’t have any resources within ourselves, and therefore we have to look to God for help and to depend on him.” (Page 7)

“But Jesus turns upside down our definition of what a hero is. Jesus challenges our dreams and desires. He wants us to long to be a different kind of person. He doesn’t want us to spend our time wishing that we were rich, beautiful, talented, and influential, but rather that we were poor in spirit, a mourner, meek, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, merciful, and so on. These are the virtues we are to long to see not only in our own lives, but also in the lives of our children.” (Pages 3–4)

“Our longings and aspirations turn out to be full of this world and empty of the next. Jesus, however, calls us to march to the beat of a different drum, and to fill our dreams with eternal realities, not earthly toys.” (Page 16)

“To begin with, our lives, and not just our lips, would express total dependence on God” (Page 14)

“Moreover, if anyone could have afforded to get by on a minimal level of prayer, it was Jesus. If anyone knew what was the right thing to do in every situation, it was he; surely he wouldn’t have to wrestle in prayer for guidance? If anyone had the power within himself to live a victorious Christian life, he had it; surely he wouldn’t have to plead with God for strength to triumph over temptation? If anyone had the presence of God continually with him, Jesus did; surely he didn’t need to set aside special times to experience the reality of that presence?” (Page 12)

Product Details

• Title: Hero of Heroes: Seeing Christ in the Beatitudes
• Author: Iain M. Duguid
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 116
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Beatitudes
• ISBNs: 0875521770, 9780875521770
• Resource ID: LLS:HRHRSCHRSTBTTDS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:35:55Z

About Iain M. Duguid

Iain M. Duguid (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Grove City College and pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has also served as a missionary in Liberia, taught at Reformed Seminary and Westminster Seminary California, and planted churches in Fallbrook, California, and Oxford, England. Some of Duguid's other work includes books such as Living in the Gap Between Promise and Reality and Hero of Heroes, as well as commentaries on Ezekiel, Daniel, Ruth, Esther and more. He was a translator for the Holman Christian Standard Version of the Bible and is a contributor to the New Living Translation Study Bible, the HCSV Study Bible and the ESV Study Bible. He and his wife Barb have five children.