Pete Rollins is inspired by the fact that all language fails when it comes to describing God. This, he says, is what nourishes poets and pilgrims alike as they try to capture, enact and incarnate truth. Such truth can only be lived - it cannot be reduced to mere words. From this starting point, he revisits the parables of Jesus - odd and unexpected stories that set hearers and readers spinning off course from what is safe and familiar towards some completely new kind of understanding. Parables are subversive; they never attempt to make faith simplistic. A parable does not primarily provide information about our world. Rather, if we allow it to do its work within us, it will change our world-breaking it - and us - open to wholly new possibilities. In the spirit of Jesus' parables, Peter offers some transformative stories of his own.
- ISBN10 1306044324
- ISBN13 9781306044325
- Publish Date 1 November 2013 (first published 28 July 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Paraclete Press (MA)
- Format eBook
- Pages 209
- Language English