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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Parable
		The best-known parables are those attributed to Jesus Christ in the New Testament, including the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Sower and the Seed, and the Pearl of Great Price.
		Coercion cloaked as generosity: disguised in Jesus' parable of the unforgiving slave is a power dynamic as true today as it was then.
		The parables of the mustard seed and the yeast; Reflections Today.(Opinion/Editorial)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Parable (706 words)

	parable - Encyclopedia.com
		parable the term translates the Hebrew word "mashal" —a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy.
		The parables of the mustard seed and of the yeast.(Opinion & Editorial)
		Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-parable.html (490 words)

	parable
		Parable is on the very tail end of production, but there’s still a lot to do.
		Lunchbox Funnies is a new webcomic alliance that casts the spotlight on some of the best all-ages webcomics on this magical place we call the internet.
		Congratulations goes to James Mar for being the first of us to finish his story for parable, which is no small accomplishment considering his story is the longest at thirty-five pages.
	www.parablecomic.com (1427 words)

	Parable Visions - Cameron Gray - Lulu.com
		Also featured is an interview with dark artist Oliver Haecker, with Parable Visions editor Cameron Gray.
		Cameron Gray's "Parable Visions - The Artistic Methods" is an art reference book for digital artists who wish to learn more about creating art by mixing digital and traditional mediums together.
		"Parable Visions - The Artistic Methods" is an art reference book for digital artists who wish to learn more about creating art by mixing digital and traditional mediums together.
	www.lulu.com /camerongray (584 words)

	from jesus to christ: jesus many faces: the parables
		It is unfortunate that the word "parable" is thus used in two senses, in the broad sense to refer to all the parables generally, and in the narrow sense to denote one of the three types of parables.
		The parable of the Two Sons is spoken in the temple to religious leaders, the chief priests and the elders (Mt 21:23).
		Noting that the parable is not always absolutely clear, Lagrange explained this by saying that the purpose of a parable is to strike the imagination, to pique the curiosity, to make the listener reflect and work to arrive at the meaning, but only so that the lesson will be more deeply engraved on the mind.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/parables.html (2591 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - PARABLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the haggadists took the material for their parables from conditions of life with which their hearers were familiar, yet they selected details to which Biblical allusions were found to apply; since in certain cases the idea underlying the parable was already well known to their auditors.
		Thus parables dealing with kings were frequently chosen to illustrate God's relation to the world in general and to Israel in particular, as in Num.
		The parables of both the Talmud and the Midrash, reflecting the characteristics of the life of their time, are a valuable aid in studying the cultural history of that period; Ziegler has shown, e.g.
	jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=63&letter=P (1672 words)

	How Many Points in a Parable?
		A parable may be an allegory even if [all] its constituent elements do not involve separate metaphors, so long as the overall point of the parable transcends its literal meaning (e.g., the story is about the kingdom of God rather than just, say, farming, fishing or banqueting)" (pages 42-43).
		The parts of a particular parable most likely to be invested with allegorical import are the two or three main characters which regularly appear as images of God, his faithful followers and the rebellious in need of repentance" (pages 148-149).
		Parables "lead the reader unwittingly along until he acknowledges the validity of the vehicle (picture-part) of the parable and is therefore forced to side with the story-teller concerning the tenor (spiritual truth) involved as well." The classic example of this is Nathan's parable to David, containing obvious allegorical elements.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/gospels/parable.htm (1486 words)

	Parable of the Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Parable of the Net is told in verses 47 and 48; its interpretation follows immediately in verses 49 and 50.
		The Parable of the Net takes for granted that its readers are “familiar with scenes of fishing at the Sea of Galilee” (Hultgren 304).
		If we had only the parable with no explanation, it might seem to tell a story of the church casting the gospel net to evangelize all those willing go enter the church, regardless of who they are.
	wesley.nnu.edu /biblical_studies/parables/stu-not-2000/li-mt13_47-50.htm (1149 words)

	Parable - LoveToKnow 1911
		In late Greek it came to mean a fictitious narrative or allegory (generally something that might naturally occur) by which moral or spiritual relations are typically set forth, as in the New Testament.
		The parable differs from the apologue in the inherent probability of the story itself, and in excluding animals or inanimate creatures from passing out of their natural sphere and assuming the powers of man, but it resembles it in the essential qualities of brevity and definiteness, and also in its Eastern origin.
		There are many beautiful examples of the parable in the Old Testament, that of Nathan, for instance, in 2 Sam.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Parable (144 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Parables
		The parables of the New Testament refuse to be handled like Aesop's fables; they were intended from the first to shadow forth the "mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven", and their double purpose may be read in Matthew 13:10-18, where it is attributed to Christ Himself.
		Westcott refers us to parables drawn from the material world, as the sower; from the relations of men to that world, as the fig tree and lost sheep: from the dealings of men with one another, as the prodigal son; and with God, as the hidden treasure.
		It is a "watching" parable, and is not in praise of virginity as such, though applied by the Fathers, as St. Gregory Martyr, to the duties of the virgin-state.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11460a.htm (9183 words)

	Parable at AllExperts
		In its brevity and succinctness a parable is like a fable; it differs from the fable by excluding animals that assume speech and other powers of humankind, as in Aesop's Fables; many fairy tales would be viewed as extended parables, except for their magical settings.
		Parables are the simplest of narratives: they sketch a setting, describe an action and its result; they often involve a character facing a particular moral dilemma, or making a questionable decision and then suffering the consequences of that choice.
		Besides the familiar parables of Jesus in the New Testament, such as the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son, there are many examples of parable in the Old Testament, for instance the parable of the ewe-lamb told by Nathan in, or that of the woman of Tekoah in.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pa/parable.htm (790 words)

	Bible Dictionary: Parables
		The parable conveys to the hearer religious truth exactly in proportion to his faith and intelligence; to the dull and uninspired it is a mere story, “seeing they see not,” while to the instructed and spiritual it reveals the mysteries or secrets of the kingdom of heaven.
		In Matthew three main lines of teaching are illustrated by parables: (a) The Church of the future- its planting and growth, internal and external, the enthusiasm for it, the mingling within it of good and evil, the final judgment of it (ch.
		The parable of the laborers in the vineyard (Matt.
	scriptures.lds.org /bdp/parables (805 words)

	Parable - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		There is some uncertainty as to the exact number of parables we have from Christ, as the Marriage of the King's Son is sometimes regarded as a different recension of the Great Supper, and the Talents of the Pounds.
		The principles for the interpretation of the parables, which are all intended primarily and in the first place for the disciples, are furnished by the nature of the parable itself and by Christ's own method of interpreting some of them.
		A second principle of the interpretation of the parables is that a sharp distinction must be made between what the older interpreters called the body (corpus) and the soul (anima) of the story; or, to use other expressions, between the shell or bark (cortex) and the marrow (medulla).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T6681 (1758 words)

	- Parables
		The first great quality of a parable is that it turns upon, or points to an image that is well known and applicable to the person to which the parable is meant.
		To the particular groups of people these parables were intended, the answers can be found either at the beginning, or, at their conclusion.
		This parable deals with those people who with their education, skills, investments, or by luck, have made a great deal of money, or accumulated many things.
	www.ourchurch.com /view/?pageID=172180 (3221 words)

	AllRefer.com - parable (New Testament) - Encyclopedia
		parable, the term translates the Hebrew word "mashal" : a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy.
		As used in the Gospels, the "parable" not only denotes metaphors, analogies, and enigmatic statements, but also short illustrative narratives.
		In Jesus' parables, the speaker compares an observable, natural, or human phenomenon to the Kingdom (i.e.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/parable.html (207 words)

	Parable Poems -- Introduction
		No parable should be viewed as referring to a particular person or couple.
		"With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; but he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything" (Mark 4:33-34).
		Nor are parables to be interpreted like allegories in which every detail is designed to have a meaning.
	www.brow.on.ca /Books/Parables/ParablesIntro.html (824 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Matthew 13
		Those who maintain a sharp distinction between parable and allegory insist that a parable has only one point of comparison, and that while parables were characteristic of Jesus' teaching, to see allegorical details in them is to introduce meanings that go beyond their original intention and even falsify it.
		In this explanation of the parable the emphasis is on the various types of soil on which the seed falls, i.e., on the dispositions with which the preaching of Jesus is received.
		The concluding parable of the fishnet resembles the explanation of the parable of the weeds with its stress upon the final exclusion of evil persons from the kingdom.
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/matthew/matthew13.htm (2780 words)

	slacktivist: Parable
		The extension of the parable to reference the gentiles, and the extension to conform to a more generalized view of personal grace without the foregrounding of some form of imminent eschatological expectation, are later extensions (the latter moral, strictly speaking, in the old fourfold sense) of the original thrust of the story.
		Parables in general are not full allegories: they tend to have a single point, and it's easy to get hung up on the fine details.
		The parable of the husbandman assumes that the class of labourers (even the last ones to be hired) is the class about which the point is being made, not (say) the halt and lame who could not work.
	slacktivist.typepad.com /slacktivist/2006/09/parable.html (10206 words)

	Parable of the Lost Son
		The parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) is perhaps better named the parable of the lost son, since it is designed to go with the parables of the lost sheep (verses 3-7) and lost coin (verses 8-10).
		This is the lesson of the second half of the parable, illustrated by the father's correction of his older son.
		The parables of the lost sheep and lost coin and the first half of the parable of the lost son are preparatory to this main point.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/gospels/lostson.htm (2915 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: parable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As used in the Gospels, the word parable means a narrative of more or less fictitious character, but dealing with objects or occurrences taken from nature or the life of man, which serve as terms of comparison to illustrate a supernatural truth of the moral, religious order.
		The parable thus differs from the allegory in which the words are used in the figurative sense, the allegory being really a series of metaphors, as for instance when Our Lord says: I am the Good Shepherd; the Door; the Vine, etc. (John 10:15).
		Thus for instance ill the parable of the Cockle (Matthew 13:24 sq.) the sleep during which the enemy oversows cockle, and the servants of the good man of the house conceal no special mystery.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saintS/ncd06281.htm (251 words)

	Parable of the Sower
		The parable of the Sower was given with a view to this entity not only being brought into existence but also being extended the opportunity to bring forth fruit for the kingdom.
		The parable of the Sower looks out a head to that time when the kingdom would be taken from Isael because of the nation's failure to produce fruit and given to a nation which would produce " the fruits thereof" [Matt.21:43].
		But in the last part of the parable, that expected of the one new man during the present dispensation is shown.
	www.web-ministry.com /religious/parables/sower (4387 words)

	The Parable of the Ten Talents
		Through comparing the parable of the talents with the parable of the pounds, faithfullness among Christians to do do the task at hand is not always the same.
		In both parables of the talents and the parable of the pounds, unfaithfulness on the part of the Lords servants and the end result of unfaithfulness are shown in the latter part of each parable.
		The parable conveys the point that “the ‘kingdom’ in question was not a realm or a people but the right to reign as king.
	www.web-ministry.com /religious/parables/tentalents (7236 words)

	Parable - Smith's Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The parable differs from the fable (1) in excluding brute and inanimate creatures passing out of the laws of their nature and speaking or acting like men; (2) in its higher ethical significance.
		The worth of parables as instruments of teaching lies in their being at once a test of character and in their presenting each form of character with that which, as a penalty or blessing, is adapted to it.
		Toward the close of our Lord’s ministry the parables are again theocratic but the phase of the divine kingdom on which they chiefly dwell is that of its final consummation.
	www.studylight.org /dic/sbd/view.cgi?number=T3319 (570 words)

	Parable Conference - About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parable Conference was born in 1976 out of dialogue and collaborative thinking from a group of U.S. Dominicans, women and men, who believed that the Order’s preaching mission could best be carried forward by uniting their efforts to address the needs of the contemporary church and world.
		Following in the 800 year old tradition and spirit of St. Dominic de Guzman, Parable Conference works with the Dominican Family—laity, associates, sisters, nuns, friars, and companions in mission—to preach the Gospel.
		Parable Conference offers itself as preacher, teacher, initiator, convener, scholar, writer, publisher, promoter, advocate, conversationalist, servant, and friend so that the Order of Preachers may fulfill its responsibility to announce God’s transforming Word of love, hope, justice, mercy, and peace throughout the world.
	www.parableconference.org /2.html (151 words)

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