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Prodigal Christ - A Parabolic Theology (Hardcover)
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Prodigal Christ - A Parabolic Theology (Hardcover)
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The parable of the prodigal son stands as one of the most powerful
imaginings of the grace of God extended to fallen humanity: its
themes of departure, longing, and embrace speak to the very heart
of human existence. In Prodigal Christ Kendall Cox engages this
timeless story as not only a parable of salvation but also a
parable of atonement and election, and therefore a parable of the
divine life. Far more than a depiction of God's abstract, general,
or unmediated love for humankind, what it recounts is the
primordial prodigality of the second person of the Trinity. Setting
in conversation two innovative and highly resonant christological
readings of the parable, found in Julian of Norwich's Revelations
of Divine Love and Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics, Cox shows that
the identity of Jesus Christ with the wayward son is a textually
faithful interpretive trajectory arising from the Lukan story
itself. Such an identification is illuminated by a Ricoeurean
account of parable as metaphorized narrative and by aligning the
parable along the intertextual threads to which both Julian and
Barth appeal. The extraordinary divine welcome figured in the lost
son's homecoming prompts Julian's unprecedented excursus on divine
motherhood and compels Barth to speak, irreducibly, of the humanity
of God. This famous story of God's tender condescension is
theologically fecund not only because of its content but also
because of its parable form. Through their creative retellings, Cox
argues that Julian and Barth are not simply interpreting scripture
christologically but rather doing Christology in the mode of
parable. Embodying what we might call "parabolic theology," these
authors invite us to consider this narrative form as an exemplary
and enduring theological genre particularly well suited to
christological discourse. What emerges from this reading is a
striking image of Christ the divine Son and Servant who goes into
the far country in order to bear humanity's burden as his own,
taking on an alien identity, taking it up into the divine life.
This is our story, and the story of God.
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