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In 1969, I was teaching at two seminaries inthe Chicago area. One of my courses was on the parables by Jesus and the other was on the resurrection stories about Jesus. I had observed that the parabolic stories by Jesus seemed remarkably similar to the resurrection stories about Jesus. Were the latter intended asparables just as much as the former? Had we been reading parable, presuming history, and misunderstanding both?—from __The Power of Parable__ So begins the quest of renowned Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan as he unlocks the true meanings and purposes of parable in the Bible so that modern Christians can respond genuinely to Jesus's call to fully participate in the kingdom ofGod. In __The Power of Parable__, Crossan examines Jesus's parables and identifies what he calls the"challenge parable" as Jesus's chosen teaching tool for gently urging his followers to probe, question, and debate the ideological absolutes of religious faith and the presuppositions of social, political,and economic traditions. Moving from parables __by__ Jesus to parables about Jesus, Crossan then presents the four gospels as"megaparables." By revealing how the gospels are not reflections of the actua

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Author

John Dominic Crossan

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062098337

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy