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 ...
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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.
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Peter Rollins strikes again with a brilliant and also thoughtful work that intrigues your mind and also sometimes tickles your funny bone. He's worth reading because of how your ideas can become very plastic while juggling his concepts.
This is definitely worth reading.
Robo
Sep 9, 2010
Forward Thinking
Obviously this is a book for persons seeking and thinking about their faith. Rollins is a good scholar and brought fresh thinking to me. "For me" is all I can say for I have been a faith-based person all my life and spent my time serving through many ministries and I too have always been a heritic to the organized church, so we clicked. Read and expand your mind and do not be turned anyway by the title.
