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Synopsis
The parables of Jesus are not quaint moral tales. Stories That Still Disturb: Jesus’ Parables and Their Modern Confrontation reads them as theological disruptions — compressed narratives that expose the hidden architecture of the human heart. They were dangerous when first spoken, and they remain dangerous now.
Across thirty chapters, the book rests on a central conviction: the parables are not illustrations of doctrine but confrontations with identity. They diagnose before they prescribe, naming the condition — comparison, entitlement, resentment, indifference, pride — often in the very people who consider themselves faithful. The Rich Fool fails not for want of a retirement plan but because he narrates his future without God in it. These are stories that do not flatter the religious, excuse the powerful, or sentimentalize grace; they disturb because they reorder vision.
Jesus Christ, MD
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