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En Las enigmáticas parábolas de Jesús, Ruben Zimmermann explorara la dinámica de las parábolas en su rica complejidad. Aborda los enfoques históricos, de los literarios y de los orientados al lector. Luego expone una hermenéutica posmoderna que analiza los elementos narrativos y el context. Los estudiosos modernos de las parábolas se han preocupado durante mucho tiempo de preguntar qué dijo Jesús y qué pretendía con sus parábolas. Ruben Zimmermann va más allá en su libro Las enigmáticas parábolas de Jesús y explora la dinámica del discurso parabólico en toda su rica...

HOPE IS A PATHWAY - These are not easy times for hope. When one looks around one finds a lot of uncertainty and disillusionment. But it is precisely when human reality contradicts our expectations, that evangelical hope becomes more necessary. And the fundamental reason of Christian hope it is not in what we can do but in what God can do in us or through us. It is not a substitute to attain omnipotence that we seek. It is not a spare tyre to which we take recourse when we see that our spirit is low. It proposes to begin to see everything from another perspective. And there, we are not the...

Valerie Knowles Combie paints poetic word pictures of the beautiful Caribbean islands of Antigua and St. Croix. The poems are sectioned into two parts. The first captures the relaxed pace of Antigua’s island life, enjoying the simple passing of time in the appreciation of the island’s beautiful sky, changing weather, plants and animals, and human inhabitants. She also describes what one may encounter in traveling to the island by air. The second part is a collection of thought-poems on life in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Barrack Obama’s presidency, and the island’s changing...

When we are asked why we believe in God, is our answer one that honors our faith? The common response is that we doubt and give a very short response