Status
Available
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Genres
Publication
Fortress Press (1997), Edition: 1st ptg., 196 pages
Description
In this startlingly original interpretation, Ford explores seven of the longer parables attributed to Jesus. Bypassing the assumption that the superior character represents God and the subordinate one the Christian believer, Ford focuses instead on how persons, long separated by inequality, are called upon to collaborate.Drawing on his own psychotherapy training, Ford offers novel insights into ways the characters persist in their mutual misunderstandings. He then shows how Jesus' stories envelop listeners in these same distortions, only to lure them—and ourselves—into the work of imagining reconciliation.
LCC
BT375 .F67
Physical description
196 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0800629388 / 9780800629380
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