We think the story of 'the Prodigal Son' is about a repenting sinner finding forgiveness.
Okay. It's about that.
Jesus in Matthew, reembodied after his death, says that his disciples should go back to Galilee, and expect to find him there.
In Luke, instead, he meets the disciples at a village near Jerusalem, and tells them: "Stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high." Whereupon, in Acts, we eventually get that incident at… Continue
People often misunderstand when I tell them that theology must be understood as a sort of poetry, thinking that this means I disrespect theology. They start babbling things about "poetics".
Poetics is a set of tricks used for light verse and advertising, which are also used in poetry, but only in the sense in which "a bird uses wings."
Poetry is the art practiced by Jesus, William Blake, numerous others, for the purpose of setting forth truth. It is the only method capable of… Continue
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