Reading the Lukan Parables in Their Rhetorical Context
by
Lauri Thuren
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For far too long, Lauri Thuren argues, the parables of Jesus have been read either as allegories encoding Christian theology—including the theological message of one or another Gospel writer—or as tantalizing clues to the authentic voice of Jesus. Thuren proposes instead to read the parables “unplugged”...