Hidden in His Own Story: Discovering Jesus in the Parables of the Gospels

Publisher Description

Hidden in His Own Story is an invitation to reconsider and re-imagine both the humanity and divinity of Jesus. It is an invitation to people who are not familiar with the Bible stories and have only heard them through other sources, also to many who have rejected traditional interpretations of the stories as religious dogma, and to many people who are so steeped in the stories that they have become cliche. Even the most clever storyteller or writer of fiction can never totally disguise or deny their personal influence on the story. And most of us have had the experience of someone beginning a story with, I know a person who ... when in fact that person is the one telling the story. Why not imagine the same when Jesus says, Once there was a man ... ?