Drawing on John Dominic Crossan's The Power of Parable, mainly ch. 3 (2012), Paul Ricoeur's "Listening to the Parables of Jesus" (1974), and Paul Tillich's The New Being, ch. 1: "To Whom Much Is Forgiven..." (1955). Are these weird stories riddles, where if you figure out what they mean you get salvation? Are they homilies, telling you to go be like the Good Samaritan? Continue Reading …
Topic for #113: Jesus’s Parables (Plus a Not School Group on Historical Jesus)
On 3/18, Wes, Mark, and Lawrence Ware discussed Jesus's Parables. Listen to the episode now. To read the versions of the Parables that we read, follow the links from the Wikipedia entry on the Parables. These entries generally give the traditional interpretations for each parable and include historic depictions of them in artworks, so that's pretty cool. If you're not Continue Reading …
Paul Tillich on Religious Existentialism
A name commonly thrown around when discussion liberal Christianity is Paul Tillich, famed for a Christian version of something like Heidegger's philosophy of religion. Here's a very long and slow-to-get-going (not to mention very dark on my screen) interview with him: Watch on youtube. In this first clip (around 5 minutes in), he describes how tragedy shaped his Continue Reading …