How Much More (2016.08.14 Sermon)
August 15th, 2016 | John Chandler
Reading the parables of Jesus can sometimes be confusing. If we try to make them into exact allegories, God ends up looking grumpy at best and capricious at worst. Drawing from Luke 11:1-21, Chris Morton asks”is there a better way?”
Quotes and links mentioned:
- “I dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.” JRR Tolkien
- “The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.” Peter Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of God
- “You can’t say ‘God’ without saying less than God.” Peter Rollins
- Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
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