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Jesus, the Anthropologist: Patterns of Emplotment and Modes of Action in the Parables
Religions, 2022 This article uses a typology of action framework to analyze a selection of the gospels’ parables. It does so by connecting these parables to A. G. Haudricourt and C. Ferret’s research on the “anthropology of action”.
Benoît Vermander
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Logic and Parables: Do These Narratives Provide Arguments?
Informal Logic, 2012 We explore the relationship between argument and narrative with reference to parables. Parables are typically thought to convey a message. In examining a parable, we can ask what that message is, whether the story told provides reasons for the message ...
Trudy Govier, Lowell Ayers
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Interpreting the parables of the Galilean Jesus: A social-scientific approach
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 This article proposes a methodology for interpreting the parables of Jesus. The methodology put forward has as starting point two convictions. Firstly, the difference between the context of Jesus’ parables as told by Jesus the Galilean in 30 CE and the ...
Ernest van Eck
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Parables as a Transcultural Tool for a Psychologist’s Work with the Requests of Parents of Children with Abnormal Development [PDF]
The Global Psychotherapist, 2023 Parables are considered to be an effective tool in a psychologist’s work with parents of children with abnormal development. As a kind of metaphor, parables actuate neurodynamic mechanisms of the personality’s reflection of actual life issues. The use of
Ganna Naydonova, Iryna Uninets
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Guidelines towards plausible interpretation of gospel parables
In die Skriflig, 2021 This study is undertaken against the backdrop of the polyvalence of parables and the resultant arbitrary conclusions reached by many interpreters of gospel parables. It is aimed to set guidelines towards plausible interpretations of these parables.
Aniedi M. Akpan, Francois P. Viljoen
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The Nutmeg’s Curse: parables for a planet in crisis
Environmental Politics, 2023 fruitful political analyses. The book is also somewhat distant from the politics announced in its title. If politics is always about power, in one form of another, there is strikingly little discussion of it in the book.
Saswat Samay Das +2 more
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A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 The parables of Jesus have historically been attributed with a plethora of interpretations. The first hearers of the parables of Jesus had native (emic) knowledge of the social realities embedded in the parables told by Jesus, that is, cultural scripts ...
Charel D. du Toit
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A decolonial biblical perspective on Jesus inspired by Fanon and Biko
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This paper makes an original contribution against the background of relevant postcolonial discourse by means of the methods of postcolonial and social-scientific biblical exegesis from the perspective of critical correlation. The main aim of the paper is
Jacobus Kok
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Crafting animated parables: an embodied approach to representing lifestyle behaviours for reflection
Digital Creativity, 2020 Latest work regarding personal informatics, gamification, and feedback has suggested that visualizing behavioural data for daily reflection should consider dynamic representations in metaphors and narratives with positively and negatively valued outcomes.
Kenny K. N. Chow
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