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Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Reading the Gospels Wisely, Jonathan Pennington examines the theological and ethical aims of the Gospel narratives, helping students see the fruit of historical and literary study. He contends that we can learn to read the Gospels well from various vantage points, among them the premodern, modern, and postmodern. This textbook can stand on its own as a guide to reading the Gospels as...

of a particular theological persuasion, the use of the Gospels must especially be curtailed because this is all pre-Pentecost, pre-church, and so really of a different era or dispensation. Some might respond that the Gospels do at least show us how Jesus was a master teacher, a man of the people who used simple stories to reach the average layman in the (grassy hillside) pew. But what does this mean when we realize that Jesus’s purpose in using parables is stated to be quite the opposite? We see
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