‘The Sermon on the Mount’ by Carl Bloch, 1887. Photo: Wikimedia commons / Public domain. The opening words of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ vision of discipleship, are a list of makarioi: the blessed, the flourishing, the fortunate. Before Jesus tells his disciples what to do, he gives them a vision of the world as it looks under the reign of God. It is a very upside-down kind of…
