Jesus’ parables aim to subvert and shatter, while reconstructing in the wake of the debris. What happens in many of these powerful stories is bursting with meaning that dangerously engages the imagination. The attacking and overturning character of parables is not to be missed. Parables also disorient, shock, and surprise, bringing about reversal and re-orientation in the disclosing of a new understanding concerning the person of Jesus, the world, the Kingdom of God, and the hearer.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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2 comments:
Greg,
What is the Normal Christian Life? does it, almost automatically, bring things we don't expect? Like, we might ecpect, the
Christian Life to bring sucess in what the world considers sucess, instead puts us in conflicts and difficulties.
Writers such as yourself mention the Modern, Post -Modern world, living in a dicotomy ect. that this is such a serious problem? Is that the case?
HCM
Harry coe,
Yes, I think the Christian life does bring many things our way and that our expectations therefore need to be more and more aligned with Scripture - conflicts and difficulties are part of Living Spirituality.
In the Modern - Postmodern world of today the bibilcal vision of tension, being in-between, even disorientated, are not problems, but part of being a follower of the crucified and risen One.
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