Parables for Preachers: The Gospel of Luke: Year C

About this book

The parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachers offers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew Mark and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary making this book an indispensable resource for preachers teachers catechists liturgy planners and Bible study groups.