Macarism

Alternate Labels

• Beatitudes
• Makarism

Related Labels

• Beatitudes of Revelation
• The Beatitudes

Web Links

• Recipes for Happiness
• Blessed Are The Baby Killers: Cognitive Linguistics and the Text of Psalm 137
• “The Moral Aspects of Poverty & Blessing the Poor” – Part I Deuteronomy 10:12-22 & Matthew 5:1-12
• Psalm 1:1-2: Exegetical Notes
• Deborah and Mary
• The Beatitudes in Hebrew and Aramaic
• Verbicide: ‘Happy’ or ‘Blessed’? How faith can be drained of meaning by Arthur Ballingall
• http://interactive-matthew.blogspot.com/2008/05/d-matthew-51-728-sermon-on-mount.html by Godfrey Nicholson
• ASCRIPTIVISM by Peter Geach
• The Beatitudes (Part Two)

Key Passages

• Psalm 1:1
• Psalms 32.1-2
• Psalms 34.8
• Psalms 40.4
• Jeremiah 17.7
• Sirach 31.8
• Job 5.17
• Psalms 94.12
• Proverbs 28.14
• 1 Peter 3.14
• 1 Peter 4.14
• James 1.12
• Matthew 5.3-12
• Luke 6.20-23
• Revelation 1:3
• Revelation 14:13
• Revelation 16:15
• Revelation 19:9
• Revelation 20:6
• Revelation 22:7
• Revelation 22:14

Reading List

macarism: a blessing formula (beatitude) commonly structured as “blessed are the X, for they shall receive Y”