Justice at the Margins
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Justice at the Margins

Jesus’ Parables of Defiance and Disruption

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eBook - ePub

Justice at the Margins

Jesus’ Parables of Defiance and Disruption

About this book

Jesus was a teacher. One of the key tools of his teaching was storytelling. Through vivid parables of mustard seeds, leaven, wayward children, poor widows, rich men, and day laborers, Jesus helps us imagine the kingdom of God. The parables of Jesus were well-conceived and artfully structured traps. They invite the listener into a simple story or comparison. They get the listener comfortable with the familiar territory of the scene. Then the parable switches everything around and frustrates the expectations of the listener. The parables of Jesus were intended to show his listeners that the way the kingdom of God operates is not what we expect. They challenge comfortable beliefs and conventional wisdom about wealth and poverty, about holiness and sinfulness, about good people and bad, and about purity and corruption. Previously, Kurt Struckmeyer accepted many of the conventional interpretations of the parables, that they were about miraculous growth or grace or prayer or humility. Now he is convinced that the parables are about upsetting the social order, confronting racism, disturbing the status quo, and behaving shamelessly in the pursuit of justice. These are parables of shock, scandal, resistance, disruption, and defiance for people living on the margins of society.

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Information

Publisher
Resource Publications
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9798385232376
9798385232383
eBook ISBN
9798385232390
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Commentary

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: JESUS, THE STORYTELLER
  5. Chapter 2: THE PERSISTENT WIDOW / THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT
  6. Chapter 3: THE MUSTARD SEED AND THE LEAVEN
  7. Chapter 4: THE WORKERS IN THE VINEYARD
  8. Chapter 5: THE WIDOW’S MITE
  9. Chapter 6: THE GOOD SAMAR
  10. Chapter 7: THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX COLLECTOR
  11. Chapter 8: THE PRODIGAL SON
  12. Chapter 9: THE RICH FOOLS
  13. Chapter 10: THE DINNER PARTY
  14. Chapter 11: THE LAST JUDGEMENT
  15. Chapter 12: THE CONSPIRACY OF LOVE
  16. Bibliography

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