Contents: 1. How does a parable mean? -- Introduction -- The parable as text -- The parable as narrative -- The parable as context -- 2. The parables of Mark -- Introduction -- Parables and the mystery of the kingdom: Mark 4 -- The drama of salvation history in Mark 12 -- Community life "between the times": the parables of Mark 13 -- 3. The parables of Matthew -- Introduction -- Ethics and disc…
Contents: The Gospel -- Commentary -- Baptism -- He begins to teach -- The first disciples -- At Capernaum -- First healings -- He heals a leper -- The Kingdom of God -- The inner light -- With the wicked -- The twelve -- He heals a paralytic -- The Beatitudes -- Fulfilling the law -- Charity -- Prayer -- Trust -- Providence -- You receive exactly what you give -- The narrow gate -- Hearing and…
Contents: The four gospels : distinctive voices. Overviews of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- Jesus according to the Synoptists. The birth and childhood of Jesus : the hope of promise (Matt. 1-2; Luke 1-2) ; The backdrop to Jesus' ministry : John the Baptist, Jesus' baptism and temptations (Matt. 3:1-4:11; Mark 1:1-13; Luke 3:1-4:13) ; The initial portrait of Jesus' Galilean ministry : teachin…
Contents: Gospel according to Thomas Jefferson / Forrest Church -- Table of texts -- Life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth -- Jefferson and his contemporaries / Jaroslav Pelikan -- Index of extracts from the New Testament. Abstract: By audaciously cutting, rearranging, and pasting selections from the four gospels, Jefferson created a this small book of morals. Other Notes: Chiefly English; …