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Stiller argues that Jesus’ parables, through their narrative, personal, and oral dimensions and reversal of expectations, provide unique access to Christianity for those whose experience and hopes we label “postmodern”. Aligning contemporary scholarship with today’s cultural assumptions, Stiller offers preachers a working knowledge of postmodern sensibilities, an understanding of the parable...

in which questions of ultimate concern—about the nature of the good, the meaning of truth and the existence of God—are taken to be unanswerable and hence, in some fundamental sense, insignificant” (“The Pragmatics of Postmodernity,” in Phillips and Okholm, 31). Alasdair MacIntyre agrees: “Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness” (MacIntyre, 31). This brief outline of postmodern thought provides a basis on which to consider the role of the parables in preaching.
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