{"product_id":"speaking-in-parables-9780800610975","title":"Speaking in Parables","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is not only absorbingly readable but important. For its themes engage effectively with main dilemmas not only of formal theology but of current piety and witness.\u003cbr\u003e - Amos N. Wilder, \u003ci\u003eAndover Newton Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is immensely valuable for its persuasive illustrations of the parabolic and metaphoric imagination. McFague attends both to the interpretive and the evaluative levels of hermeneutics. Her readings of specific parables, poems, stories, and autobiographies are insightful and relevant to her thesis that what religious language 'says' is 'conceptually imperceivable and inexpressible.'\u003cbr\u003e - Mary Gerhart, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is at the very least a fine guide to one important direction that theological hermeneutics might take, and more than that, it testifies confidently to the presence of still unplumbed resources of the biblical word and its secular counterpart that are there for the imagination's appropriation.\u003cbr\u003e - Robert Detweiler, \u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryone interested in theology will be stimulated by Sallie McFague's mediating theological position and the form of thinking and discourse she espouses. Those interested in the intercourse between theology and literature will be stimulated by the way she links the two and the perceptive way she handles her literary examples. Biblical scholars will undoubtedly note her primacy of the parables as the central corpus of the biblical records. Preachers of the church will be strengthened by the concern McFague has for the Christian community and the importance of the word through the words of the preachers. With this variety of concerns, \u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Parables\u003c\/i\u003e will have a deservedly wide reading and, perhaps even more important, wide discussion.\u003cbr\u003e - Ronald E. Sleeth, \u003ci\u003ePerkins School of Theology Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sallie McFague\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fortress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.66w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800610975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcFague, Sallie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSallie McFague\u003c\/b\u003ewas the Carpenter Professor of Theology at VanderbiltDivinity School, where she taught for thirty years. She is now Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her many influential works, all from Fortress Press, are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril\u003c\/i\u003e (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuper, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1997)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Body of God: An Ecological Theology\u003c\/i\u003e (1993)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eModels of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), which received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMetaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language\u003c\/i\u003e (1982)\u003c\/p\u003eSallie McFague is a prominent figure among the growing number of theologians who have been attempting to rethink the Christian understanding of God's and humanity's place in the physical world.\u003cp\u003e-\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe power of McFague's work is in its ability to speak to the American Protestant mainstream, challenging Christians with models of God that reflect both ecological sensitivity and concern for justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sharon Welch, Harvard Divinity School \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40133714313331,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8a8d9e01-3ee5-4efd-9727-14012edb58f3.jpg?v=1654176339","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/speaking-in-parables-9780800610975","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}