The scandal of the Gospels : Jesus, story, and offense /
This book argues that the gospels are in an important sense "occasions for offense." The Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon, in the original Greek) and he is never more scandalous than when he is speaking in parables. Interpreters of the gospels over the centuries have consistent...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Offense
- Introduction: The Offense and Us
- Encountering and Suppressing Offense
- Some Contemporary Varieties of Offense
- Biblical Offense at Work: Defilement and Blindness
- The Pharisees and the Canaanite Woman
- Yahweh's Snares and Stumbling Blocks
- Jesus as the Stumbling Stone
- The Offensiveness of Offense
- Offense or Faith: The Kierkegaardian Choice
- Beguiling the Reader
- Stages on Life's Way
- Climacus on the Non-understandable
- Anti-Climacus's Dialectics
- Offending the Establishment
- Offense in Gospel Narratives
- Parabolic Lies, Parabolic Truth
- Parables as Obstructions and Revelations
- Parables as Lies
- Parables as Transforming Acts of Truth
- Collision and Crisis
- Toward Reading Parables as Scandals (A Critical Addendum)
- Training the Scribes of the Kingdom
- Substance versus Response
- Interpreting the Householder
- Interpreting Desire
- The Offensive and Inoffensive Jesus
- Writers, Readers, and Contexts
- Offenses from Within and Without
- How Does It Seem to You?
- The Sublime and the Bathetic
- The Unforgiving Slave
- Life in the Between: Nathan and the Good Samaritan
- Utterance and Response
- David and Nathan: Between I and Thou
- The Dialogic Samaritan
- The Official World and the Unseemly
- Between Stories
- Plot and Story in John
- Mythic Plots and Scandalous Stories
- The Beloved Disciple and the End of Interpretation
- The Narrative Progress of Offense
- The Divine Skandalon Enacted: God as Flesh
- Provocations and Passion.