TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Peter Rhea TI - The teaching of the parables SN - 9780805413717 AV - BT375 PY - 1982/// CY - Nashville, Tennessee PB - Broadman Press KW - Jesus Christ N1 - 1 and indexes; 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 --; 2 ER -