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Author: Paul Wharton
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780809127962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of brief stories for those who wish to share their faith: preachers, teachers, spiritual directors, catechists, and parents.
Author: Barbara E. Reid
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780814625514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachersoffers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus's original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary, making this book an indispensable resource for preachers, teachers, catechists, liturgy planners, and Bible study groups. Barbara Reid is Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She is the author of Matthewin the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series as well as Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke, both published by Liturgical Press.
Author: Brian Stiller
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781451404531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreachers, in their call to preach the Scriptures, are not only charged with the responsibility of speaking its truth but of speaking in such a way that people of this age and culture understand. To do this, the preacher builds a bridge between todays people and the gospel of both testaments. For some, this task is more difficult than for others. Preaching to those living in an inner-city housing project is far removed from an outpost mission in the two-thirds world. Each community has its own way of thinking and attaches different values to symbols of its own making. For those called preach to a generation raised on MTV and late-night comedians or those rooted in various economic culturesfrom governmentsponsored jobs overseen by union bosses to entrepreneurial dot-com companiesor generations stretching from high school students to "freedom fifty-fivers," the task is enormous. When one adds to that the complexity of a radical shift in underlying intellectual and cultural assumptions, the task of preaching becomes even more complicated.
Author: D. Bruce Seymour
Publisher: Kregel Academic
Published:
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 0825494435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book helps pastors and teachers enhance their teaching with original, audience appropriate stories--the way Jesus did! Bruce Seymour explains how such stories work, when to use them, and how to create them.
Author: Craig L. Blomberg
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1441205780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to preaching the parables that shows how to first interpret the parables, then proclaim their significance.
Author: Croft M. Pentz
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 1980-07-01
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1441237372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerfect for a preaching series on the parables Jesus told, this handy book can also be used by Sunday school teachers and speakers.
Author: Klyne R. Snodgrass
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 917
ISBN-13: 1467449636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2009 Christianity Today Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus' parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus' overall message, and the ways in which they have been interpreted in the church and the academy. Snodgrass begins by surveying the primary issues in parables interpretation and providing an overview of other parables—often neglected in the discussion—from the Old Testament, Jewish writings, and the Greco-Roman world. He then groups the more important parables of Jesus thematically and offers a comprehensive treatment of each, exploring both background and significance for today. This tenth anniversary edition includes a substantial new chapter that surveys developments in the interpretation of parables since the book's original 2008 publication.
Author: Paula Gooder
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2020-09-23
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1786221535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third volume in the Biblical Explorations series from bestselling New Testament writer Paula Gooder explores a major exponent of the Gospels: the parables of Jesus. Covering every parable, this volume focuses on some of the best-known stories in the gospels, mining their meaning afresh today. It considers why Jesus spoke in pictures and opens up the world behind the parables to reveal just how striking, memorable and challenging they were for their original hearers. Biblical Explorations is an exciting series that offers an accessible and informed study of the best loved texts in Scripture. Rooted in the conviction that greater understanding of the Bible leads to deeper discipleship, it is an essential resource for preachers, teachers and study group leaders, as well as those who simply wish to get to know the Bible better.
Author: William J. Bausch
Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780896229198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"...an indispensible resource for homilists"-- Cover back.
Author: Susan E. Colon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-02-09
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1441121374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Colòn shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources.
