Poet and Peasant: Literary-cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke eyewitnesses showing there were still people

showing there were still people who kept the covenant

“Nothing comparable in scope has been done in the last hundred years within the circles of Reformed orthodoxy

the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham

how we come to know God and to be sure of his love

including how to trust in God when it's hard

Poet and Peasant: Literary-cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke eyewitnesses showing there were still peopleThis volume is a combined edition of Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes, Kenneth Bailey's intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke. Bailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via have made important advances, Bailey sees the need to go beyond them by combining an examination of