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  The Orthodox Heretic: And Other Impossible Tales (Paperback) By (author) Peter Rollins

  

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  Short Description for The Orthodox HereticPresents 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 different kind of understanding.
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  • Publisher: CANTERBURY PRESS NORWICH
  • Published: 31 July 2009
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Biblical Studies & Exegesis
  • ISBN 13: 9781853119798 ISBN 10: 1853119792
  • Sales rank: 49,924

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• 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.