| Description |
xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index. |
| Contents |
The Offense -- Introduction: The Offense and Us -- Encountering and Suppressing Offense -- Some Contemporary Varieties of Offense -- Biblical Offense at Work: Defilement and Blindness -- The Pharisees and the Canaanite Woman -- Yahweh's Snares and Stumbling Blocks -- Jesus as the Stumbling Stone -- The Offensiveness of Offense -- Offense or Faith: The Kierkegaardian Choice -- Beguiling the Reader -- Stages on Life's Way -- Climacus on the Non-understandable -- Anti-Climacus's Dialectics -- Offending the Establishment -- Offense in Gospel Narratives -- Parabolic Lies, Parabolic Truth -- Parables as Obstructions and Revelations -- Parables as Lies -- Parables as Transforming Acts of Truth -- Collision and Crisis -- Toward Reading Parables as Scandals (A Critical Addendum) -- Training the Scribes of the Kingdom -- Substance versus Response -- Interpreting the Householder -- Interpreting Desire -- The Offensive and Inoffensive Jesus -- Writers, Readers, and Contexts -- Offenses from Within and Without -- How Does It Seem to You? -- The Sublime and the Bathetic -- The Unforgiving Slave -- Life in the Between: Nathan and the Good Samaritan -- Utterance and Response -- David and Nathan: Between I and Thou -- The Dialogic Samaritan -- The Official World and the Unseemly -- Between Stories -- Plot and Story in John -- Mythic Plots and Scandalous Stories -- The Beloved Disciple and the End of Interpretation -- The Narrative Progress of Offense -- The Divine Skandalon Enacted: God as Flesh -- Provocations and Passion. |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Person and offices -- Biblical teaching.
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Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, Narrative.
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Narration in the Bible.
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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| Indexed Term |
Scandal |
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Stumbling-block |
| Added Title |
Jesus, story, and offense.
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| ISBN |
0195084284 alkaline paper |
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9780195084283 alkaline paper |
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