Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions?: Seminal Essays on the Stories of Jesus - Softcover

Hedrick, Charles W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498224857 ISBN 13: 9781498224857

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Hedrick contends that parables do not teach moral and religious lessons; they are not, in whole or part, theological figures for the church. Rather, parables are realistic narrative fictions that like all effective fiction literature are designed to draw readers into story worlds where they make discoveries about themselves by finding their ideas challenged and subverted--or affirmed. The parables have endings but not final resolutions, because the endings raise new complications for careful readers, which require further resolution. The narrative contexts and interpretations supplied by the evangelists constitute an attempt by the early church to bring the secular narratives of Jesus under the control of the church's later religious perspectives. Each narrative represents a fragment of Jesus's secular vision of reality. Finding himself outside the mainstream of parables scholarship, both ecclesiastical and critical, Hedrick explored a literary approach to the parables in a series of essays that, among other things, set out the basic rationale for a literary approach to the parables of Jesus. These early essays form the central section of the book. They are published here in edited form along with unpublished critiques of a thoroughgoing literary approach and his response.

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Charles W. Hedrick is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of numerous books and articles relating to the study of Christian origins. His most recent book is The Wisdom of Jesus (Cascade Books, 2014).

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• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498224857
• ISBN 13: 9781498224857
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 326
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