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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCracken, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.