Thiselton on Hermeneutics: Collected Works with New Essays by Anthony C. Thiselton

Author:Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-09-02T10:41:00+00:00

(1) The image-part or picture-half of the parable is not merely an illustrative or homiletical device to make a lesson more vivid or memorable. It is a means of creating a common world in which Jesus and the hearer stand together. When Jesus speaks "of provisional and family life as it takes place in normal times", of the farmer, of the housewife, of the rich and poor or the happy and sad, he is not simply establishing a "point of contact" but standing with the hearer in his "world".127 "We find existentialia wherever an understanding between men is disclosed through their having a common world.1112S

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