Re-Imagine the World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

BERNARD BRANDON SCOTT, Re-Imagine the World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge, 2001). Pp. [xii] + 167. Paper $18.

New works on the parables of Jesus continue to pour out in regular succession, though few offer greater insight and imagination than those of Bernard Brandon Scott. An imagining, or as he terms it a "re-imagining," of the world is what he understands the parables to evoke. It is that re-imagining, catalyzed by the words of Jesus, that S. offers in this volume.

Scott's first volume, Hear Then the Parable (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989), was ...

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