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Parables and Proverbs Summary
3,883 words, approx. 13 pages PARABLES AND PROVERBS. Proverbs are brief, memorable sayings that offer ethical direction in specific situations from generation to generation. They are a feature of almost all cultures, historically, as well as today. The proverb is tailor-made for...
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Parable Information
1,027 words, approx. 3 pages
 A parable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors while parables generally are stories...




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The Parables of Jesus
07/01/2007: 409 words, approx. 1 pages The Parables of Jesus by Luise Schottroff Fortress, Minneapolis, 2006. 288 pp. $18.00. ISBN 978-0-8006-3699-9. THERE IS NO END to the puzzlement that the parables of Jesus pose, and no end to the books that try to explain them. Rarely do interpreters of...
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The parables of Jesus
07/01/2002: 4,877 words, approx. 16 pages The parables of Jesus are an ethically appropriate genre for his claims about the kingdom of God. But our fascination with gospel parables by Jesus may be extended to gospel parables about Jesus. Especially in parables about Jesus, questions of historical accuracy may lead...
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Ohio congregation lives giving parable
12/20/2007: 2,023 words, approx. 7 pages The Rev. Hamilton Coe Throckmorton shivered with anticipation as he gazed at the loot — wads of $50 bills piled high beside boxes of crayons in a Sunday school classroom.Cautiously, he locked the door. Then he started counting.It was a balmy Friday evening in September....
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New Mormon president, 80, is picked
2/4/2008: 957 words, approx. 3 pages The new president and prophet of the Mormon church is in some respects a throwback, an 80-year-old man with a fondness for talking in parables and quoting Charles Dickens.But Thomas S. Monson is also described as a student of a fast-changing world and his faith's...


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