Posts Tagged ‘parable’
the parable of the puzzle
There lived on the outskirts of a city, in a quaint cottage, an old, retired professor. This professor’s life’s work had been an attempt to disprove the existence of God–especially the existence of the Christian God. His library, in which he took great pride, was full of the works of well-known atheistic [...]
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Tags: atheism, mystery, parable, Trinity
a wise old professor…
A wise old professor of theology was known to enjoy philosophical sparring with the younger, more zealous students. As he was lecturing one day on postmodern theory, he said, hoping to rouse one student in particular,
“And so we dare not expect that plurality of persons—not even two persons—can come to a purely uniform agreement [...]
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Tags: parable, postmodern theology, postmodernity
the subversion of the lectern
The Subversion of the Lectern
a parable by Tyler Priest
it is told that after the Protestant Reformation had taken root throughout Europe, a great bishop of the Catholic church was invited to deliver the homily at a neighboring sister church in Rome. what he did forever stuck in the minds of the parishioners there.
in this [...]
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Tags: Christian worship, Christocentric, Counter-Reformation, deconstruction, disciples fellowship, emergent, eucharist, experiential faith, Greg Newton, Holy Communion, logocentric, parable, preaching, Protestant Reformation, Roman Catholicism, table
reality checkered
One afternoon in a city park, an old man walked up to two young men at a checker board. He began watching the progression of their slow, calculated game. He chuckled to himself, These boys don’t know what they’re doing. The bystander had played on the checkerboard literally thousands of times—he was well-schooled in the [...]
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Tags: parable, paradigm, postmodernity, Wittgenstein
parable of the refugee
there was once a country whose economy was slowly dying because of a widespread famine. this ensuing death created a mass exodus and resulted in numerous refugees, many of whom had no direction but away from the dying country. one such refugee, a young man, left his family and headed toward a new, [...]
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Tags: ecclesia, journey, parable
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