Interpreting the Parables

Interpreting the Parables
Author: Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830866779

Craig Blomberg surveys the contemporary critical approaches to the parables--including those that have emerged in the twenty years since the first edition. This widely used text has taken a minority perspective and made it mainstream, with Blomberg ably defending a limited allegorical approach and offering brief interpretations of all the major parables.

Preaching the Parables

Preaching the Parables
Author: Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441205780

A guide to preaching the parables that shows how to first interpret the parables, then proclaim their significance.

Reading the Parables

Reading the Parables
Author: Richard Lischer
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0664231659

Parables make up one-third of Jesus' speech in the New Testament. In this volume, Richard Lischer provides an expert guide to these parables and proposes an important distinction between reading and interpreting the parables. Emphasizing the importance of reading the parables versus interpreting them, Lischer asserts that reading offers a kind of breathing space to explore historical, literary, theological, and socio-political dimensions of the parables and their various meanings, whereas interpreting implies an expert and critical position that must be defended. In this volume, Lischer lays out four theories for reading parables: 1) parables obscure truth; 2) parables teach many truths; 3) parables teach one truth; and 4) parables undermine the truth. Ultimately, he concludes that biblical parables undermine dominant myths called "the truth" to shine light on the Truth that is Jesus, God's presence with us.

The Parables

The Parables
Author: Simon J. Kistemaker
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

A clear introduction to the parables of Jesus, including and examination of their settings, interpretations, and implications for the Christian life.

The Parables

The Parables
Author: Brad H. Young
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801048206

Young focuses on the historical development and theological significance of parables in the Jewish and Christian traditions, examining parallels between the rabbinic and Gospel parables.

The Economics of the Parables

The Economics of the Parables
Author: Robert Sirico
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1684512913

Timeless and moral economic wisdom for life's choices and changes derived from the parables of the New Testament by famed free market advocate and Catholic priest Robert Sirico. Libraries are filled with books on the parables of Christ, and rightly so. In the words of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “While civilizations have come and gone, these stories continue to teach us anew with their freshness and their humanity.” Two millennia later, the New Testament parables remain ubiquitous, and yet, few have stopped to glean from one of Christ’s most prevalent analogies: money. In The Economics of the Parables, Rev. Robert Sirico pulls back the veil of modernity to reveal the timeless economic wisdom of the parables. Thirteen central stories—including “The Laborers in the Vineyard,” “The Rich Fool,” “The Five Talents,” and “The Faithful Steward”—serve as his guide, revealing practical lessons in caring for the poor, stewarding wealth, distributing inheritances, navigating income disparities, and resolving family tensions. As contemporary as any business manual and sure to outlast them, The Economics of the Parables equips any economically informed reader to uncover the enduring financial truths of the parables in a reasonable, sensible, and life-empowering manner.

The End

The End
Author: A. D. Bauer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780965879804

The first Square Halo title, this book helps the reader work through the famous biblical book about End Times, providing explanations of biblical passages, definitions of the biblical imagery, and insights from other parts of Scripture.

The Forty Parables of Jesus

The Forty Parables of Jesus
Author: Gerhard Lohfink
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 081468534X

2022 Catholic Media Association first place award in scripture: academic studies In this book, which covers all of Jesus’ parables, award-winning author Gerhard Lohfink takes a closer look at the origins of each one—its shape, its realistic details, but most of all its original message and the situation into which it was once spoken. Jesus’ parables speak in bold images of the kingdom of God, making it present to us as they reveal something of the mystery of his own person. Lohfink also offers a review of some of the scholarship in this area—as this topic has sustained research on Jesus since the first telling of these stories—but not for the purposes of debate. His reflections interpret the forty parables and show how they speak of the coming of the reign of God, lead us to Jesus, and reveal the mystery of Jesus himself.

The Parables of Jesus

The Parables of Jesus
Author: James Montgomery Boice
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802494196

"Some sections of the Bible give us grand theology. Some move us to grateful responses to God. But the parables break through mere words and make us ask whether there has indeed been any real difference in our lives." In this beloved classic, James Boice takes us systematically through the parables of Jesus, grouping them into five categories: parables of the kingdom, salvation, wisdom and folly, the Christian life, and judgment. In each section Boice brings Jesus' words to bear on life today. Through his careful study and clear explanation of each parable—born from a sermon series he preached at the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he pastored for 32 years—he helps us understand just what Jesus meant, and how our hearts and lives ought to respond. Jesus' parables are memorable for a reason. Discover their power for yourself.

An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus

An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus
Author: Robert H. Stein
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664243906

A clear and thorough introduction to the best known of Jesus' teachings, this much-needed text examines what parables are, why Jesus taught in parables, and the purpose and place of parables in the Gospel narratives. Invaluable for the beginning seminary or college students and for church study groups, this enlightening work reveals the meaning of the parables when they were first given, their meaning for the Gospel writers, and their meaning for us today.