An interesting blog here for those preaching the parables, as we are at present at St Paul's and St Mary's...
Between: Metaphorical language is essential to faith: Here's an interesting segment from Stephen Abell's review in the Guardian of How to do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy : 'The read...
To extend the quote slightly: 'As Landy triumphantly concludes: "the Sower is a meta-parable, a parable about parables, a parable that only indirectly concerns the kingdom of God, being focused, rather, on the ability to handle figurative language".
Between: Metaphorical language is essential to faith: Here's an interesting segment from Stephen Abell's review in the Guardian of How to do Things with Fictions by Joshua Landy : 'The read...
To extend the quote slightly: 'As Landy triumphantly concludes: "the Sower is a meta-parable, a parable about parables, a parable that only indirectly concerns the kingdom of God, being focused, rather, on the ability to handle figurative language".
When we read the parable, then, it is the very experience of reading that is crucial.'
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