The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching: Gospel Imagery and Application
Overview
The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching examines the family metaphors for God (Father) and believers (children, brothers) that Jesus chose to use. Jesus not only held up a child as an example of receptivity, but he defended actual children, warning against despising “one of these little ones.” Using current discussions of the equal-regard family and the importance of human fathering, Stephen Finlan explores how the Gospel entails a changed model of parenting and marriage and a new approach to spiritual growth.
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- Examines the family metaphors that Jesus chose to use
- Presents current discussions of the equal-regard family
- Explores how the Gospel entails a changed model of parenting and marriage
In this careful and beautifully written book, Stephen Finlan demonstrates not only the importance of the family metaphor or the message of Jesus, but also that the equal-regard family is not just a construction of abstract theology, but rather has a true basis in the Christian Scriptures.
—Don Browning, author of Equality and the Family
- Title: The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching: Gospel Imagery and Application
- Author: Stephen Finlan
- Edition: Second Edition
- Publisher: Cascade
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 126
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Views on the family; Jesus Christ › Family; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christian ethics
- ISBNs: 9781620321157, 1620321157
- Resource ID: LLS:FMLYMTPHRJSSTCH
- Resource Type: Monograph
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