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The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
John Dominic CrossanIn 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 actual biography of Jesus but rather (mis)interpretations by the gospel writers themselves, Crossan reaffirms the power of parables to challenge and enable us to co-create withGod a world of justice, love, and peace.
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