The teaching of the parables /
Jones, Peter Rhea,
The teaching of the parables / [print] Peter Rhea Jones. - Nashville, Tennessee : Broadman Press, (c)1982. - 263 pages ; 21 cm.
Report from the trenches: recent study of parables -- Nature of a parable -- Special literary considerations -- Sure coming of the kingdom -- Impetus to hearing and hoping: the parable of the sower and the soils -- Appeal to religious imagination -- Invitation to faith: the parable of the seed growing on its own -- Crisis of the coming kingdom -- Prophetic call for national repentance: the parable of the barren fig tree -- Exposure to inauthentic existence: the parable of the rich fool -- Call to existential decision: the parable of the six brothers -- Grace and repentance of the kingdom -- Gospel for the lost: parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the compassionate father and the angry brother -- Portrait of radical grace and stunning pentinence: the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector -- Character of discipleship in the kingdom -- Imperative of forgiveness: the parable of the unmerciful servant -- Love command in parable: the parable of the compassionate Samaritan -- Pastoral call to perseverance: the parable of the persistent widow --
9780805413717
78054367
Jesus Christ--Parables.
BT375 BT375.J78.T433 1982
The teaching of the parables / [print] Peter Rhea Jones. - Nashville, Tennessee : Broadman Press, (c)1982. - 263 pages ; 21 cm.
Report from the trenches: recent study of parables -- Nature of a parable -- Special literary considerations -- Sure coming of the kingdom -- Impetus to hearing and hoping: the parable of the sower and the soils -- Appeal to religious imagination -- Invitation to faith: the parable of the seed growing on its own -- Crisis of the coming kingdom -- Prophetic call for national repentance: the parable of the barren fig tree -- Exposure to inauthentic existence: the parable of the rich fool -- Call to existential decision: the parable of the six brothers -- Grace and repentance of the kingdom -- Gospel for the lost: parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the compassionate father and the angry brother -- Portrait of radical grace and stunning pentinence: the parable of the pharisee and the tax collector -- Character of discipleship in the kingdom -- Imperative of forgiveness: the parable of the unmerciful servant -- Love command in parable: the parable of the compassionate Samaritan -- Pastoral call to perseverance: the parable of the persistent widow --
9780805413717
78054367
Jesus Christ--Parables.
BT375 BT375.J78.T433 1982