In 1969, I was teaching at two seminaries in the 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 as
parables 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 of God. 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 with God a world of justice, love, and peace.
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