A Parabolic Teaching of Christ: A Systematic and Critical Study of the Parables of Our Lord

by Alexander Balmain Bruce

Publisher:

A. C. Armstrong and Son

, 1904

Overview

In his typically scholarly manner, A. B. Bruce analyzes and interprets the parables of Jesus, building on the foundation of study that was set by Richard C. Trench, Siegfried Goebel, Ernst J. G. de Valenti, William Arnot, and other scholars and preachers before him. He develops his own interpretations and theories based on the Bible text itself, and then draws from a rich tradition of German, Scottish, Irish, and American scholars—even bringing in the Latin studies of Calvin, Jerome, and others. With Bruce’s profound, rich, and multilevel discourse, your investigation of Jesus’ parables will find itself a fruitful and intellectual study.

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Key Features

• Presents thorough pastoral and exegetical treatment of Jesus’ parables
• Contains a practical work for pastors, students, and scholars
• Includes dozens of illustrations and summaries of each parable

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Parables of our Lord were of an incidental character; and perhaps the best way of studying them is not to isolate them from the general history of His ministry for separate consideration, but rather to look at them as parts of a larger whole in connection with the particular occasions which called them forth. And yet it is, to say the least, a very natural and legitimate procedure to take these parables, which form so large, so peculiar, and so precious a portion of Christ’s teaching, apart by themselves, and make them the subject of a special study.” (Page 1)

“Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.’” (Page 343)

“He that received seed among the thorns is so described as to suggest the idea of a double-minded man—the ἀνὴρ δίψυχος of St. James.¹ This man is neither stupid, like his brother nearer of the first class, nor a mere man of feeling, like those of the second class. He hears in the emphatic sense of the word, hears both with thought and with feeling, understanding what he hears and realising its solemn importance.” (Page 29)

“Jesus forewarned His disciples what they had to expect when they were called on as apostles to sow the word of the kingdom. They should find among their hearers classes of persons of which these sorts of ground were the types.” (Page 24)

“now on one side, now on the other; serving God to-day, serving mammon to-morrow; very religious, and also very worldly.” (Page 29)

Product Details

• Title: A Parabolic Teaching of Christ: A Systematic and Critical Study of the Parables of Our Lord
• Author: Alexander Balmain Bruce
• Publisher: A. C. Armstrong and Son
• Publication Date: 1904
• Pages: 515
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Parables

About Alexander Balmain Bruce

Excerpted from the 1911 Encyclopedia

Alexander Balmain Bruce, Scottish divine, was born at Aberargie near Perth on the 31st of January 1831. His father suffered for his adherence to the Free Church at the Disruption in 1843, and removed to Edinburgh, where the son was educated, showing exceptional ability from the first. His early religious doubts, awakened especially by Strausss Life of Jesus, made him throughout life sympathetic with those who underwent a similar stress. After serving as assistant first at Ancrum, then at Lochwinnoch, he was called to Cardross in Dumbartonshire in 1859, and to Broughty Ferry in 1868. There he published his first considerable exegetical work, the Training of the Twelve. In 1874 he delivered his Cunningham Lectures, afterwards published as The Humiliation of Christ, and in the following year was appointed to the chair of Apologetics and New Testament exegesis at the Free Church College, Glasgow. This post he held for twenty-four years. He was one of the first British New Testament students whose work was received with consideration by German scholars of repute. The character and work of Christ were, he held, the ultimate proof and the best defence of Christianity; and his tendency was to concentrate attention somewhat narrowly on the historic Jesus...