Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore in a comprehensive way the ""afterlives"" of the parable tradition - how people have interpreted, been influenced by, and applied Jesus' enigmatic and compelling parables in a multitude of ways, perspectives, eras, contexts, and media.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Afterlives of Jesus's Parables in Antiquity (to ca. 550 CE)
- Irenaeus
- The Gospel of Philip
- Clement of Alexandria
- Tertullian
- Origen
- John Chrysostom
- Augustine
- Macrina the Younger
- Ephrem the Syrian
- The Good Shepherd in Early Christian Art
- Oil Lamp
- Roman Catacombs
- Dura-Europos House Church
- Illuminations from the Rossano Gospels
- Byzantine Mosaics, Christ Separating Sheep from Goats, Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy)
- Romanos the Melodist
- 2. The Afterlives of Jesus's Parables in the Middle Ages (ca. 550–1500 CE)
- Gregory the Great
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- Wazo of Liège
- The Golden Gospels of Echternach
- The Laborers in the Vineyard
- The Wicked Tenants
- The Great Dinner
- The Rich Man and Lazarus
- Theophylact
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Chartres Cathedral
- Bonaventure
- Thomas Aquinas
- John Gower
- Antonia Pulci
- Albrecht Dürer
- 3. The Afterlives of Jesus's Parables in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Martin Luther
- Anna Jansz of Rotterdam
- John Calvin
- John Maldonatus
- William Shakespeare
- Domenico Fetti
- George Herbert
- Roger Williams
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
- John Bunyan
- 4. The Afterlives of Jesus's Parables in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- William Blake
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Frederick Douglass
- Fanny Crosby
- Leo Tolstoy
- John Everett Millais
- Emily Dickinson
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Adolf Jülicher
- 5. The Afterlives of Jesus's Parables in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Thomas Hart Benton
- Parables and the Blues: Rev. Robert Wilkins
- Flannery O'Connor
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Godspell
- Two Latin American Receptions
- The Peasants of Solentiname
- Elsa Tamez
- David Flusser
- Octavia Butler
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Conclusion: What Do Parables Want?
- Appendix: Descriptions of the Parables Cited in the Interpretations
- Works Cited
- Scripture Index
- Subject Index
